Undue quotes:

Send

Undue enmity with enemies does not serve the interests of the system. Enemies must be dealt with wisely and prudently. -- Yousef Saanei
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax. -- Edgar Allan Poe
Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety. -- Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men. -- Nachman of Breslov
Pleasure admitted in undue degree, enslaves the will, nor leaves the judgment free. -- William Cowper
Harassment is about power---the undue exercise of power by a superior over a subordinate. -- Michael Crichton
Nothing cools so fast as undue enthusiasm. Water that has boiled freezes sooner than any other. -- George Iles
America gains most when individuals have great freedom to pursue personal goals without undue government interference. -- Sylvia Earle
I am not... totally unreceptive to colour providing it makes its appearance quietly, deferentially, and without undue fanfare. -- Fran Lebowitz
Our use of phrase 'The Dark ages' to cover the period from 699 to 1,000 marks our undue concentration on Western Europe... -- Bertrand Russell
The two terrors that discourage creativity and creative living are fear of public opinion and undue reverence for one's own consistency. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues. -- Marianne Williamson
The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The giving of undue prominence to one fact brings others inexorably on the head of the student to avenge his neglect of them, -- Thomas Hughes
Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar. -- Thorstein Veblen
Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I have no doubt that the nation has suffered more from undue secrecy than from undue disclosure. The government takes good care of itself. -- Daniel Schorr
Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good. -- Bernard Crick
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn. -- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort. -- Quintilian
Perhaps the spirit of adventure, be it mental or material adventure, is a factor so essential in human progress that no emphasis of it is undue. -- Archibald Hill
I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men. -- Albert Einstein
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. -- Fred Rogers
It is always esteemed the greatest mischief a man can do to those whom he loves, to raise men's expectations of them too high by undue and impertinent commendations. -- Thomas Sprat
Control does not come from strong police forces, does not come from oppression and repression, does not come from violating people's rights or giving the security systems undue powers -- Hanan Ashrawi
By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct. -- Edgar Allan Poe
There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience. -- Jean de la Bruyere
O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all. -- Leonardo da Vinci
And you know, almost in a perverse way, I wish it had been undue influence because we know how to correct that. We get rid of the people who, in fact, were exercising that. -- David Kay
Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot. -- Bobby Jindal
Money managers have to account for their actions to their shareholders, which means they have an undue fear of underperformance. We invest only our own money. Our investments are driven by optimism, not fear. -- Richard Chandler
Modesty means to be free from undue familiarity, from indecency, from lewdness, pure in thought and conduct. Speaking of modest apparel, it means decent, seemly. The opposite of modesty is conceit, boldness, immodesty, brazenness, lewdness. -- Elisabeth Elliot

Send