A Quote by George Saintsbury

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury

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Almost Curious Excites Hostility Humour Lack More Nothing Savage Than Those

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George Saintsbury
English - Writer
October 23, 1845 - January 28, 1933

Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing. Those who lack humour are without judgment and should be trusted with nothing.

Clive James

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge.

Ron Smothermon

Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty

Dominic Lawson

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

Eric Hoffer

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

Henry Home, Lord Kames

Nothing walks the earth more savage than a mare enraged.

Janet Morris

In the New Testament our enemies are those who harbor hostility against us, not those against whom we cherish hostility, for Jesus refuses to reckon with such a possibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Our Twentieth Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors. Our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It's all rot that they put in the war-news about the good humour of the troops, how they are arranging dances almost before they are out of the front-line. We don't act like that because we are in a good humour: we are in a good humour because otherwise we should go to pieces.

Erich Maria Remarque

As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.

Lafcadio Hearn

Storytelling excites me. Nothing gets me more juiced up than having an impact on people.

Alrick Brown

There is nothing so necessary, but at the same time there is nothing more difficult (I know it by experience) for you young fellows, than to know how to behave yourselves prudently towards those whom you do not like. Your passions are warm, and your heads are light; you hate all those who oppose your views, either of ambition or love; and a rival, in either, is almost a synonymous term for any enemy.

Lord Chesterfield

I think I have more humour in me than anger. But those two things are great bed-fellows, performance-wise.

Elaine Stritch

Ill-humor is nothing more than an inward feeling of our own want of merit, a dissatisfaction with ourselves which is always united with an envy that foolish vanity excites.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.