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Spleen can subsist on any kind of food. -- William Hazlitt
There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased: And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. -- William Congreve
Kind pity chokes my spleen. -- John Donne
The Bible, itself the ultimate curse, is an in-depth profile of the divine spleen. -- Ruth Hurmence Green
There is a luxury in self-dispraise; And inward self-disparagement affords To meditative spleen a grateful feast. -- William Wordsworth
It is pleasant to see a notorious profligate seized with a concern for religion, and converting his spleen into zeal. -- Joseph Addison
Do I believe in God? I did until Mother's accident. She fell on some meat loaf and it penetrated her spleen. -- Woody Allen
I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.' -- Olivia Wilde
No ruler should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no general should fight a battle simply out of pique. -- Sun Tzu
If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen. -- Walter Scott
One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off. -- Thomas De Witt Talmage
Then a sentimental passion of a vegetable fashion must excite your languid spleen, An attachment a la Plato for a bashful young potato, or a not-too-French French bean! -- W.S. Gilbert
Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure. -- Sloane Crosley
In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow, Hast so much wit and mirth and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee. -- Joseph Addison
Social media has created a legion of social delinquents, billions of people speaking not their minds but their spleens, venting everything from the gum-cracking snark befitting a hair-twisting mallrat to the froth-flecked rage of a bell tower marksman. -- Steven Weber
The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion. -- William Hazlitt
Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen; Secrets of state no more I wish to know Than secret movements of a puppet-show; Let but the puppets move, I've my desire, Unseen the hand which guides the master wire. -- Winston Churchill
Good-humor, gay spirits, are the liberators, the sure cure for spleen and melancholy. Deeper than tears, these irradiate the tophets with their glad heavens. Go laugh, vent the pits, transmuting imps into angels by the alchemy of smiles. The satans flee at the sight of these redeemers. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The spleen is seldom felt where Flora reigns; The low'ring eye, the petulance, the frown, And sullen sadness, that o'ershade, distort, And mar the face of beauty, when no cause For such immeasurable woe appears; These Flora banishes, and gives the fair Sweet smiles, and bloom less transient than her own. -- William Cowper
Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the sinister application Of the malicious, ignorant, and base Interpreter; who will distort and strain The general scope and purpose of an author To his particular and private spleen. -- Ben Jonson
A wound in the friendship of young persons, as in the bark of young trees, may be so grown over as to leave no scar. The case is very different in regard to old persons and old timber. The reason of this may be accountable from the decline of the social passions, and the prevalence of spleen, suspicion, and rancor towards the latter part of life. -- William Shenstone
My character, Rick Spleen, is a what-if version of me, really, where nothing did quite turn out right and everything else is still around the corner. -- Jack Dee
Superstition is the spleen of the soul. -- Alexander Pope
My lawyers will fricassee your testicles for breakfast. And if you dare board my plane without a warrant, your spleen will follow. -- Dan Brown
Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen. -- Ellen DeGeneres
My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal. -- Amy Hoggart
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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats. -- Anne Sexton
Dreams don't come true. Dreams die. Dreams get compromised. Dreams end up dealing meth in a booth at the back of the Olive Garden. Dreams choke to death on bay leaves. Dreams get spleen cancer. -- Douglas Coupland

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