Abused Quotes & Sayings

Abused Quotes & Sayings

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You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility. - Lois McMaster Bujold



If a man character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - William Makepeace Thackeray



The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories that it has come to be disbelieved. Few people daresay nowadays that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet that is the way love begins, and only that way. The rest is only the rest, and comes afterwards. Nothing is more real than the great shocks that two souls give each other in exchanging this spark. - Victor Hugo



If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny. - Martin Luther King, Jr.



Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. - George Washington



There are two modes of establishing our reputation: to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the former, because it will invariably be accompanied by the latter. - Charles Caleb Colton



He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly. - H. G. Wells



If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business. - Alexander Pope



The art of power and its minions is the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments. - Henry Clay