Priggery Quotes & Sayings

Knyghtwood, though the gales had stripped away most of its leaves, had not lost its fascination for Ben and the twins. Indeed, its spell seemed deeper than before. The trees all had faces now, the twins said, and fingers and toes. They dug their toes in hard when the wind blew, and stretched up their arms to the sky, and pulled down the clouds with their long, grey fingers, and made purple cloaks out of them that they wrapped about their bare limbs when the night fell coldly. — Elizabeth Goudge

There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living. — Jim Thompson

Culture has lead us to betray our own aboriginal spirit and wholeness, into an ever-worsening realm of synthetic, isolating, impoverishing estrangement. Which is not to say that there are no more everyday pleasures, without which we would loose our humanness. But as our plight deepens, we glimpse how much must be erased for our redemption. — John Zerzan

The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society. — Elton John

Thee will find out in time that I have a great love of professing vile sentiments, I don't know why, unless it springs from long efforts to avoid priggery. — Bertrand Russell

The thing suppressed as an intrusion," Eric said, "is almost always worth looking at. — Rachel Kushner

The novel ... creates a bemusing effect. The short story, on the other hand wakes the reader up. Not only that, it answers the primitive craving for art, the wit, paradox and beauty of shape, the longing to see a dramatic pattern and significance in our experience. — V.S. Pritchett

Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world. — Gertrude Atherton

Keep it simple, so you'll keep doing it. — Steve Krug

I can be 100 years old but I will always be proud to say I was in Harry Potter. — Emma Watson

Love is a universe of its own, comprising all time and space. — Therese Of Lisieux

Most kids are assholes, just like most adults. — Caroline Kepnes

Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed. — Anonymous

They only are wise who know that they know nothing. — Thomas Carlyle

Nothing in the world matters if you don't matter. — Steven Cuoco

A man. A shock of black hair. An intriguingly tilted set of eyes, the hue I couldn't make out in the dark, but shockingly, I could see one was a color that was light, the other a color that was definitely dark. — Kristen Ashley