Lambasted Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. — C.S. Lewis

Yes, novels; for I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom, so common with novel-writers, of degrading, by their contemptuous censure, the very performances to the number of which they are themselves adding; joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid pages with disgust. Alas! if the heroine of one novel be not patronised by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard? I cannot approve of it. Let us leave it to the reviewers to abuse such effusions of fancy at their leisure, and over every new novel to talk in threadbare strains of the trash with which the press now groans. Let us not desert one another- we are an injured body. — Jane Austen

About halfway through I broke down crying, which I hadn't expected. I was a little ashamed, but only a little;it was her, you see, and she never taxed me with the times that I slipped from the way I thought a man should be ... the way I thought I should be, at any rate. A man with a good wife is the luckiest of God's creatures, and one without must be among the most miserable, I think, the only true blessing of their lives that they don't know how poorly off they are. — Stephen King

We take refuge in pride because we are afraid to tell the truth to ourselves. — Okakura Kakuzo

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J.J. Abrams

As you can see, I've got legs. I can also assure you that I know how to use them. Any questions? — Nadia Scrieva

One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too
deeply? — Diane Ackerman

The soul of a people does not change overnight. — Jan-Philipp Sendker

Any politician or scientist who tells you these [GMO] products are safe is either very stupid or lying. — David Suzuki

He felt ready to face the devil, and strutted in the ballroom with the swagger of a cavalier. — Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no magical formula to beat the casino. None. Save your money. Save yourself from the cons of an author and the cons of the casino. — John-Talmage Mathis

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs. — Thomas Jefferson

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another. — Thomas Merton

The enormous faith of many made for one. — Alexander Pope

America is the most compassionate country in the entire world. We do more for folks around this world. And that's the nature of the American people. — Bobby Jindal