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 leaves with disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave... and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is human agitation, with all the vulgarity of needs small and great, with its flagrant disgust for the police who repress it, i...t is the agitation of all men ... that alone determines revolutionary mental forms, in opposition to bourgeois mental forms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors.... I cannot understand how an innocent hand can t...ouch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I went to my father's at night. He spoke of poor John [Boswell's brother] with disgust. I was shocked and said, "He's your son, an...d God made him." He answered very harshly, "If my sons are idiots, can I help it?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing, neither acceptance nor prohibition, will induce a child to stop swearing overnight. Teach your child respect for himself ...and others, that profanity can hurt, offend, and disgust, and you'll be doing the best you can...And save your parental giggling over mispronounced curses for after the children's bedtime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Abject flattery and indiscriminate assentation degrade, as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. But a mo...dest assertion of one's own opinion, and a complaisant acquiescence in other people's, preserve dignity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good bre...eding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »