Spite Quotes

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. (Victor Hugo)
The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he is really very good - in spite of all the people who say he is very good. View quote
Robert Graves
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. View quote
Edith Wharton
Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. View quote
Victor Hugo
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. View quote
Emil Cioran
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. View quote
Paul Tillich
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. View quote
Christopher Reeve
I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name. View quote
William Morris
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time, Be crushed by the spirit of light. (Boris Pasternak)
Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. View quote
Richard Dawkins
The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right. View quote
William Shakespeare
If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Everything in life is speaking in spite of it's apparent silence. View quote
Inayat Khan
We all know that the theater and every play that comes to Broadway have within themselves, like the human being, the seed of self-destruction and the certainty of death. The thing is to see how long the theater, the play, and the human being can last in spite of themselves. View quote
James Thurber
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. View quote
George Eliot
The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves. View quote
M. H. Abrams
In spite of all the refinements of society that conspired to make art the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonards canvases beauty was savage. It was as dangerous and lawless as the earth had been eons before man had one single coherent thought in his head or wrote codes of conduct on tablets of clay. Beauty was a Savage Garden. View quote
Anne Rice
Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five. View quote
James McNeill Whistler
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. (Livy)
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways. View quote
Edith Wharton
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats. View quote
Theodore Roosevelt
The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances. View quote
Agatha Christie
I would never do anything just for spite. View quote
Justin Timberlake