The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.
Quotes about timorous (12 Quotes)
When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.
The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions.
The timorous men who run the FDA had promised a decision on Plan B this summer this was after delay upon delay over the past two years and intense shrieking from anti-abortion groups who wrong-headedly claim that Plan B causes abortion. I was supposed to be the champion of women's health at the agency, ... Science needs to be the main decision driving health policy, not politics.
I am not worthy of the wealth I owe, Nor dare I say 'tis mine, and yet it is But, like a timorous thief, most fain would steal What law does vouch mine own.
Men are even lazier than they are timorous, and what they fear most is the troubles with which any unconditional honesty and nudity would burden them.
The root of revenge, is in the weakness of the soul the most abject and timorous are the most addicted to it.
Turn pimp, flatterer, quack, lawyer, parson, be chaplain to an atheist, or stallion to an old woman, anything but a poet for a poet is worse, more servile, timorous and fawning than any I have named.
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
But he was one of those weak creatures, void of pride, timorous, anemic, hateful souls, full of shifty cunning, who face neither God nor man, who face not even themselves.