Injured

Famous quotes containing the word injured:

    Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modest enough not to take offense that one appreciates them.
    Luc, Marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–1747)

    For its part, Government will listen. We will strive to listen in new ways—to the voices of quiet anguish, to voices that speak without words, the voices of the heart, to the injured voices, and the anxious voices, and the voices that have despaired of being heard.
    Richard M. Nixon (1913–1995)

    Nor jealousy
    Was understood, the injured lover’s hell.
    John Milton (1608–1674)