Quote by

Forgive me....I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.

Forgive me….I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel.
– Lloyd Alexander

Related Quotes:

  1. one idiot can shut 1000 wise men mouths, where as 1000 wise will fail to open the eyes of an idiot. – yssubramanyam
  2. I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn’t actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false. – Sherman Alexie
  3. He’s no idiot, in fact he’s a genius… and that’s as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness. – Mike Judge
  4. He’s no idiot, in fact he’s a genius… and that’s as far from an idiot as you can get without reaching madness. – Mike Judge
  5. Keating stood still, because he understood for the first time what it was that artists spoke about when they spoke of beauty. – Ayn Rand
  6. Years ago a black man spoke about love and was crucified. Then Martin Luther King spoke about equality and was shot. Can you SEE why? – Daniel Marques
  7. Count the deed, not the thought. – Lloyd Alexander
  8. Often, we speak too hastily. We claim ideals and embrace images and dreams of fantasy. We make promises without thinking about the consequences. – Elizabeth D Marie
  9. Marriage is a mystery that one would be wise not to solve too hastily.— Marve De Jong, Love And Other Follies Of The Great Families Of Old New York – Anna Godbersen
  10. Whatever is produced in haste goes hastily to waste. – Saadi
  11. Sometimes it’s very difficult to keep momentum when it’s you that you are following. – Andrew Lloyd Webber – Andrew Lloyd Webber
  12. Monsieur Beulier never engaged in thought except to speak the truth, and never spoke except to express his thought. – Marcel Proust
  13. God forgive me for what I’ve done. God forgive me for what I will do. And God forgive me for what I can’t do because my religion won’t let me – Stanley Victor Paskavich
  14. Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother. – Barbara Kingsolver
  15. I believe what Jesus said was, ‘I the Lord will forgive whom I will forgive. But of you it is required that you forgive all men. – Orson Scott Card
  16. …you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them – either way you have to forgive… – John Geddes
  17. That one doesn’t count. The poor scoundrel is deaf, but he makes a fine sniffer. How do you think we found you? – HS Crow
  18. Make not, when you work a deed of shame, The scoundrel’s plea, ‘My forbears did the same. – AlMaarri
  19. Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world. – Thomas Carlyle
  20. The pleasure of being a scoundrel can be adequately savored in silence. – Rmy de Gourmont
  21. Doubt is the archenemy of love. He is the scoundrel who accused her to reason – Bangambiki Habyarimana
  22. Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel. – Samuel Johnson
  23. Good men’s actions are naturalWhile a scoundrel’s charityIs carefully planned to please. – Abu alAla alMaarri
  24. Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have. – Lloyd Alexander
  25. If you want truth, you should begin by giving it. – Lloyd Alexander
  26. Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them. – Lloyd Alexander
  27. A taste for adventure is by no means a masculine monopoly. – Lloyd Alexander
  28. What you may seek and what you may find are not always one. – Lloyd Alexander
  29. Is there worse evil than that which goes in the mask of good? – Lloyd Alexander
  30. Thus, death begets death; evil begets evil. – Lloyd Alexander
  31. For man to be worthy of any rank, he must strive first to be a man. – Lloyd Alexander
  32. Is a man truly what he see himself to be?”Only if what he sees is true. – Lloyd Alexander
  33. Who but lovers dream alike? – Lloyd Alexander
  34. The journey is the treasure. – Lloyd Alexander
  35. Every living thing deserves our respect… be it humble or proud, ugly or beautiful. – Lloyd Alexander
  36. No matter what has happened, you’re not a pig-boy; you’re an Assistant Pig Keeper! – Lloyd Alexander
  37. That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood. – Lloyd Alexander
  38. If a storyteller worried about the facts – my dear Lucian, how could he ever get at the truth? – Lloyd Alexander
  39. Do you not believe that animals know grief and fear and pain? The world of men is not an easy one for them. – Lloyd Alexander
  40. The only thing a cat worries about is what’s happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time. – Lloyd Alexander

More Quotes

, , , , , ,