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Vehement Quotes

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Whatever they did, the Elysians were careful never to be vehement.

Benjamin Disraeli
Vehemence, Vehement, Careful
Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.359

If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

Johann Kaspar Lavater
Time, Vehement, Cold
"Aphorisms on Man" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, (c. 1788).

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

Austin O'Malley
Reform, Vehement, Pairs

Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Philosophical, Vehement, Causes

I love your silences, they are like mine.

Anais Nin
Silence, Vehement, Mines
"Under a Glass Bell". Book by Anais Nin, 1944.

Anger is implanted in us as sort of sting, to make us gnash with our teeth against the devil, to make us vehement against him, not to set us in array against each other.

Richard Savage
Devil, Teeth, Vehement

We are least open to precise knowledge concerning the things we are most vehement about.

Eric Hoffer
Diversity, Literature, Vehement
Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

I announce the great individual, fluid as Nature, chaste, affectionate, compassionate, fully armed; I announce a life that shall be copious, vehement, spiritual, bold, And I announce an end that shall lightly and joyfully meet its translation.

Walt Whitman
Death, Spiritual, Vehement
Walt Whitman (1872). “Leaves of Grass”, p.382

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Richard Cecil
Simplicity, Vehement, Eloquence
Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1824). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character”, p.300

Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.

Mahatma Gandhi
Writing, Answers, Vehement
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

You!” she said, stepping forward with a vehement expression and her finger pointed. Heart pounding, I pressed into Al. Funny how he seemed so much safer now. (Newt, Rachel and Al)

Kim Harrison
Heart, Expression, Vehement

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near me, with their vehement beat-pounding black and green rhythms like those of a very young policeman exploding, for me to see the written evidence of it.

Dylan Thomas
Inspirational, Black, Vehement

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