Renounce

Famous quotes containing the word renounce:

“In order to remain true to oneself one ought to renounce one’s party three times a day.”
—Jean Rostand (1894–1977)

“Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and we do not try. We renounce all high aims.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work—then I was never an artist.”
—Ellen Terry (1847–1928)