Slighted Quotes

• Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

  Charlotte Saunders Cushman

  Art, Self, Mistress

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• A slighted woman knows no bounds.

  John Vanbrugh

  Knows, Bounds

  Sir John Vanbrugh, Thomas Betterton, Molière (1795). “The mistake: a comedy”, p.27

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• The nuns taught us there are two ways through life... the way of Nature... and the way of Grace. You have to choose which one you'll follow. Grace doesn't try to please itself. Accepts being slighted, forgotten, disliked. Accepts insults and injuries. Nature only wants to please itself. Get others to please it too. Likes to lord it over them. To have its own way. It finds reasons to be unhappy... when all the world is shining around it... when love is smiling through all things.

  Terrence Malick

  Love Is, Two, Shining

  "Fictional character: Mrs. O'Brien". "The Tree of Life", May 2011.

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• The discrimination is not made openly, but a Negro who goes to such places is informed that there are no accommodations, or he is overlooked and otherwise slighted, so that he does not come again.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Reality, Doe, Discrimination

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

  Trevor Phillips

  Christian, Religious, Discrimination

  "Christians are more militant than Muslims, says Government's equalities boss". Interview with Jonathan Wynne-Jones, www.telegraph.co.uk. June 18, 2011.

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• I quit acting when I was 11 because I was cast as a bouncing ball in 'Alice in Wonderland,' and I felt slighted and wounded.

  Lena Dunham

  Acting, Balls, Wonderland

  "Lena Dunham and Producer Judd Apatow Talk HBO Series GIRLS". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 26, 2012.

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• Be careful how you do one man a pleasure which must needs occasion equal displeasure in another. For he who is thus slighted will not forget, but will think the offence to himself the greater in that another profits by it; while he who receives the pleasure will either not remember it, or will consider the favour done him less than it really was.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

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• She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Jane Austen (1853). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.9

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• We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman; scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.

  Colley Cibber

  Anger, Hell, Fury

  Colley Cibber (1725). “Love's Last Shift; or, the Fool in fashion. A comedy, etc”, p.49

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• Knowing so many people like myself who are singers and in traveling bands, the people you're in a relationship with feel slighted because they feel you're giving all your energy to your fans, and there's a lot of truth to that.

  Kid Rock

  Knowing, People, Giving

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• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

  Robert Owen

  God, Doctors, Medical

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one's self. To mind one's own business. Not to want to manage other people's affairs. To avoid curiosity. To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully. To pass over the mistakes of others. To accept insults and injuries. To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked. To be kind and gentle even under provocation. Never to stand on one's dignity. To choose always the hardest.

  Mother Teresa

  Mistake, Humble, Humility

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• A person who suffers bitterly when slighted or insulted should recognize from this that he still harbors the ancient serpent in his breast. If he quietly endures the insult or responds with great humility, he weakens the serpent and lessens its hold. But if he replies acrimoniously or brazenly, he gives it strength to pour its venom into his heart and to feed mercilessly on his guts. In this way the serpent becomes increasingly powerful; it destroys his soul's strength and his attempts to set himself right, compelling him to live for sin and to be completely dead to righteousness.

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Powerful, Freedom, Heart

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• When we have been hurt, slighted, or wounded unfairly, we are not left alone to bear it. We can get on our knees and ask for the Lord's help to forgive.

  Virginia H. Pearce

  Hurt, Forgiving, Knees

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• If we set out with... a scrupulous regard to the Constitution, the government will acquire a spirit and a tone productive of permanent blessings to the community. If on the contrary,... the Constitution is slighted, or explained away, upon every frivolous pretext, the future of government will be feeble, distracted and arbitrary. The rights of the subjects will be the sport of every party vicissitude. There will be no settled rule of conduct, but everything will fluctuate with the alternate prevalency of contending factions.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Sports, Party, Blessing

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• A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

  Rudyard Kipling

  Prayer, War, Soldier

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• The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted.

  John Muir

  God, Science, Men

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.701, Library of America

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• There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple duties and interests we have slighted and forgotten. Our world grows smaller, but it grows dearer and greater. Simple things have a new charm for us, and we suddenly realize that we have been renouncing all that is greatest and best, in our pursuit of some phantom.

  William George Jordan

  Simple, Our World, Escaping

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• You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.

  James Cook

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• There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Hurt, Medicine

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• My child, it will be better for you if you accept my decisions without complaint. Do not ask me to defend my actions or to explain why one person is favored and another seems slighted. The answers to these questions go far beyond your comprehension.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Children, Decision, Answers

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• Runners are competitive folks. I think some might feel slighted they haven't got more recognition. I think they have a point. In running, you won't necessarily get noticed just for turning in good performances.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Thinking, Might

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• Some philosophers would give a sex to revenge, and appropriate it almost exclusively to the female mind. But, like most other vices, it is of both genders; yet, because wounded vanity and slighted love are the two most powerful excitements to revenge, it has been thought, perhaps, to rage with more violence in the female heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sex, Powerful, Revenge

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.107

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• We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of those who will soon pass away from among us: and do they ask us for the future happiness of our lives, we lay it at their feet, and will it away from us.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Opportunity, Feet, Sick

  Elizabeth Gaskell (2012). “Norte e Sul: North and South: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.698, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• I'm definitely going to bounce back, I don't doubt that one bit. The thing about this is you have to expect that when you're a back my age. You can't feel slighted if someone says that because it's a reality that it's abnormal for a guy my age to still be starting in the NFL. I can accept that. I still understand what the truth is to me, and that's what I believe. I don't really care what people say.

  Curtis Martin

  Believe, Reality, Nfl

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