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Vex Quotes

1.
I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.
Hermann Hesse

Authors on Vex Quotes: Leonardo da Vinci Marcus Aurelius Julia Quinn Alfred Lord Tennyson Lucretius Plautus Henry David Thoreau William Shakespeare Hermann Hesse Piet Pieterszoon Hein Lewis Carroll Seneca the Younger Edmund Waller John Wilkins Galileo Galilei Edmund Burke Joseph Joubert Derek Landy
2.
You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

3.
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.
Leonardo da Vinci

4.
It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
Galileo Galilei

5.
O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.
William Shakespeare

6.
Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.
Leonardo da Vinci

7.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations
Marcus Aurelius

8.
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
Marcus Aurelius

9.
We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.
Plautus

10.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
Edmund Burke

11.
This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.
Julia Quinn

12.
From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.
Lucretius

13.
Everything's either concave or -vex, so whatever you dream will be something with sex.
Piet Pieterszoon Hein

14.
It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
John Wilkins

15.
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Edmund Waller

16.
It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.
Julia Quinn

17.
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!
Lewis Carroll

18.
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Seneca the Younger

19.
It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.
Leonardo da Vinci

20.
I grow in worth,
and wit,
and sense,
Unboding critic-pen,
Or that eternal want of pence,
Which vexes public men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

21.
Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?
Henry David Thoreau

22.
It is always our inabilities that vex us.
Joseph Joubert

23.
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.
Marcus Aurelius

24.
By the way, all joking aside, do I call you Ghastly or Elder Bespoke?' 'You can call me whatever you like.' Vex nodded. 'Thank you, Gladys.
Derek Landy