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Bondage Quotes - Page 2

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

Thomas Moore
Wise, Wisdom, Bondage
Thomas Moore (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)”, p.820, Delphi Classics

If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain.

Swami Vivekananda
Moments, Bondage, Dare
Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.780, Manonmani Publishers

It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

Oscar Wilde
Divorce, Broken, Bondage
Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (1998). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”, p.33, Oxford University Press, USA

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

W. Somerset Maugham
Art, Human Bondage, Refuge
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.265, Diversion Books

There is nothing so degrading as the constant anxiety about one's means of livelihood.

W. Somerset Maugham
Mean, Anxiety, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.342, Diversion Books

Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.

Rajneesh
Ambition, Desire, Bondage

The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.

Plato
Divinity, Poet, Bondage
Plato (1938). “Phaedrus, Ion, Gorgias, and Symposium: With Passages from the Republic and Laws”

Nor was it only from the millions of slaves that chains had been removed; the whole nation had been in bondage; free speech had been suppressed.

Matthew Simpson
Speech, Slave, Bondage

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind

Mary Wollstonecraft
Parent, Mind, Bondage
Mary Wollstonecraft (1796). “A vindication of the rights of woman: with strictures on political and moral subjects”, p.354

A man cannot be comfortable spiritually who is in bondage financially.

Francis M. Lyman
Men, Financial, Bondage

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Dorothea Brande
Done, Bondage, Humdrum
Dorothea Brande (2013). “Wake Up and Live!: A Formula for Success That Really Works!”, p.40, Penguin

Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud.

William Shakespeare
May, Speak, Bondage
'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 158

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham
Asking, Reason, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2017). “Of Human Bondage”, p.470, Open Road Media

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

W. Somerset Maugham
Dignity, Human Bondage, Policemen
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.356, Diversion Books

From old habit, unconsciously he thanked God that he no longer believed in Him.

W. Somerset Maugham
Old Habits, Habit, Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.160, Diversion Books

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

W. Somerset Maugham
Women, Wish, Human Bondage

We will only truly be free when those in bondage are finally free

Desmond Tutu
Bondage

There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

Alice Tisdale Hobart
Bondage

Do we always make our freedom out of someone else's bondage?

May Sarton
Bondage
May Sarton (2014). “Crucial Conversations: A Novel”, p.33, Open Road Media

Unhappiness is bondage; therefore, happiness is freedom.

Lauren Oliver
Unhappiness, Bondage
Lauren Oliver (2015). “Delirium Trilogy: Delirium, Pandemonium, Requiem”, p.182, Hachette UK

His bondage had softened him. Irresponsibility had weakened him. He had forgotten how to shift for himself. The night yawned about him.

Jack London
Night, Forgotten, Bondage
Jack London, JACK LONDON (2015). “White Fang (Arcadia Classics)”, p.100, Jack London

Collective freedom is one devoid of material bondage and one that supports the institutions necessary for democracy.

Henry Giroux
Support, Democracy, Bondage
"Angela Davis, Education and the Meaning of Freedom" by Henry A. Giroux, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2013.

A bond is necessary to complete our being, only we must be careful that the bond does not become bondage.

Anna Brownell Jameson
Doe, Bondage, Be Careful
Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.41

You see, money to you means freedom; to me it means bondage.

W. Somerset Maugham
Mean, Bondage

For me, bondage makes me feel powerless and annoyed. It's like, can you untie me?

Dian Hanson
Annoyed, Bondage, Powerless
"She’s Got Legs, She Knows How to Use Them". Interview with Ariella Gogol, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2009.

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