(453 quotes found)
“It was only stares and swearwords really, nothing serious. I just laugh about it because they can hardly speak proper English.”
Kevin Pietersen
“We're going to raise a lost generation of children unless they are properly disciplined and properly spanked.”
Charles Eddie Wiseman
“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.”
Ronald Ross
“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.”
John Ruskin
“What's proper, is becoming: See the Blacksmith with his white Silk Apron!”
Benjamin Franklin
“I asked him why he gave me a girl's name, ... He told me it was the proper way to spell it. But no one's ever joked to me about it.”
John Madden
“It's frustrating because everyone wants this heritage building taken care of, fixed properly, but you couldn't get away with that in the private sector, this very loose use of a client's money,”
Gary Lunn
“The more you learn, if you learn it properly, the more clear you become and the more you know.”
Leonard Peikoff
“A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.”
Jerome Hines
