Slight Quotes

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.