(33 quotes found)
“A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.”
G. K. Chesterton
“An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.”
Malcolm Muggeridge
“I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation”
William Shakespeare
“The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.”
Maggie Kuhn
“She flays with indignation haughty, The passages she thinks are naughty, but reads them carefully so that, she'll know what to be angry at”
Edward Anthony
“Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.”
Bertrand Russell
“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
Claud Cockburn
“The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them”
Henry Louis Mencken
“A good indignation brings out all one's powers.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children”
William Feather