Sei Shōnagon quote: "Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasures, I find quite depressing and despicable."

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and th...
JOHN FOWLES

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

The wise do not rejoice in sensual pleasures.
BHAGAVAD GITA

So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or kno...
OLYMPIA DUKAKIS

I think dead humans rising from their graves with little to no sense of who they were in their past ...
ALFRED ENOCH

The increase in gasoline prices and the prospect of a long, expensive winter is depressing sentiment...
JOSEPH ABATE

It takes a lot to open up and love. I think women find their divinity through their disappointment i...
LAURA BUSHNELL

Gradually, without seeing it clearly for quite a while, I came to realize that something is very wro...
BETTY FRIEDAN

Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the seco...
SEI SHōNAGON

185. It Is Getting So Dark
I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detes...
SEI SHōNAGON

71. Rare Things-- A son-in-law who's praised by his wife's father. Likewise, a wife who's lov...
SEI SHōNAGON

25. Flowering trees
The blossom of the pear tree is the most prosaic, vulgar thing in the world...
SEI SHōNAGON

Cosas detestables

Cuando uno tiene prisa por salir, llega alguien de visita y se queda ha...
SEI SHōNAGON

The Emperor’s cat had received the fifth rank, and was given the appropriate title-name ‘Myōbu�...
SEI SHōNAGON

Sarusawa Pond is a very special place, because the Emperor paid it a formal visit when he heard how ...
SEI SHōNAGON

A palm-leaf carriage should move slowly, or else it loses its dignity.
SEI SHōNAGON

[33]* In the seventh month, when the heat is dreadful, everything in the building is kept open all t...
SEI SHōNAGON

A man you’ve had to conceal in some unsatisfactory hiding place, who then begins to snore.
SEI SHōNAGON

30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious ...
SEI SHōNAGON

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep. Looking into a Chinese mirror that’...
SEI SHōNAGON

14. Hateful Things: Someone has suddenly fallen ill and one summons the exorcist. Since he is not ho...
SEI SHōNAGON

I do wish men, when they're taking their leave from a lady at dawn, wouldn't insist on adjusting the...
SEI SHōNAGON

8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace
The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dr...
SEI SHōNAGON

Sometimes a person who is utterly devoid of charm will try to create a good impression by using very...
SEI SHōNAGON

27. Trees
I shall say absolutely nothing about the spindle tree.
SEI SHōNAGON

185. It Is Getting So Dark
Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever ca...
SEI SHōNAGON

How ever did I pass
the time before I knew you?
I think of that past time
as now I pa...
SEI SHōNAGON

Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who b...
SEI SHōNAGON

64. Surprising and Distressing Things
While one is cleaning a decorative comb, something catc...
SEI SHōNAGON

To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if ...
SEI SHōNAGON

134. Letters are Commonplace
Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they ar...
SEI SHōNAGON

A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if...
SEI SHōNAGON

In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of l...
SEI SHōNAGON

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves a...
BERTRAND RUSSELL

That is an outrageous suggestion. I find it cowardly and despicable.
JO MARSH

Many women find it hard to juggle work and family. Passion Parties helps women have successful caree...
PATRICIA DAVIS

Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was v...
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS

I don't go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
ANTONIO TABUCCHI

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give...
OSCAR WILDE

I know elderly people who have so lived in their long lives. Today, they find great pleasure in each...
LORETTA YOUNG

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU

This could lead to abusive practices, including detaining people without the intention or realistic ...
CLAUDIO CORDONE

I find it entertaining to watch men try an outrun the knowledge that they’re needless liars, petty...
BOBBY W. MILLER

Who are your favorite heroines in real life? The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who ris...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS

Come and meet the real super heroes, the men and women who risk their lives for you.
CHARLES BROWDER

For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good.
JOHN DRYDEN

Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealou...
DAPHNE DU MAURIER

These long-haired, mentally unstable, petty little sawdust Caesars only find courage like rats, by h...
GEORGE SIMPSON

New Mexico is full of brave men and women who have dedicated their lives to service.
TOM UDALL

the promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the hau...
PHILIP YANCEY

The best thing is to possess pleasures without being their slave; not to be devoid of pleasures.
ARISTIPPUS

I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role th...
WILL SMITH

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
HENNY YOUNGMAN

Those who go forth to the battle never return without holes in their ranks, like gaping wounds. Pity...
ELLIS PETERS

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.
PAUL FUSSELL

I find nothing more depressing than optimism
PAUL FUSSELL

...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stum...
ELIZABETH KOSTOVA

Every cataclysm is welcomed by somebody; there is always someone to rejoice at disaster and see in i...
IAIN PEARS

I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as qui...
CAMPBELL SCOTT

Men who do not contend in earnest can have little warmth and fervor in what they undertake, and are ...
WILLIAM GODWIN

And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that ma...
JOSEPH DELANEY

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers...
AUGUSTUS Y. NAPIER

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and chari...
SARGENT SHRIVER

I think these numbers relate to women having responsibility in their lives, of more women having to ...
JAN SCOTT

But I do know that about ten times as many people find their lives dull, and unnecessarily dull, as ...
SINCLAIR LEWIS

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help i...
FRANK MCCOURT

I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I

We're not going to pay attention to the silliness and the petty comments. And quite frankly, wom...
KATHERINE HARRIS

For them who delay aging, who infuse decrepit bodies with youth and beauty - they must rejoice in th...
F. SIONIL JOSE

A lot of them were quite depressing and didn't have a sense of humor. And, none of them told the sto...
JENNIFER OWENSBY

Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their m...
BIBLE

I think that our culture is doing something to women - let's say women in their late 30s and 40s...
SARAH DUNN

Single men and women who go home to an empty apartment or a dog or cat or child need adult conversat...
DENNIS FRANCK

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Also, I do not like the companionship of women. They are petty and personal. They hang on to their m...
ANAïS NIN

We women. as glue for the family. lead lives that are important and conflicted. What we women choose...
KRISTIN HANNAH

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who he...
FRANK MCCOURT

Quite frankly, every single day that I do something creative, and show it to people, I'm nervous. Ev...
FELICIA DAY

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of li...
KAHLIL GIBRAN

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and gre...
TOM BRADY

Rejoice in the Lord always: and again I say, Rejoice.
BIBLE

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope ...
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.
HENNY YOUNGMAN

I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
WILLIAM CONGREVE

It is obvious now that diets don't work. People need to change their lives and lead more healthy liv...
DR. JANA KLAUER

All atheists will go to heaven. If god exists, not believing in him does not take him away and he ca...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA

I would suggest that especially in the differential of images that arise, in the inflections that we...
LORILIAI BIERNACKI

It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casua...
LUIGI PIRANDELLO

This high-end, novelistic form of TV, you know, is just peppered with despicable people who do marve...
DAMIAN LEWIS

When women agree with me I always do the other thing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS

The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN BEHAN

I love it when women come up to me and tell me I'm a positive influence on their lives and the lives...
GILLIAN ANDERSON

We gotta get the kids in school and stabilize their little lives,
ANN MOORE

These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern...
HELEN LAWRENSON

Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasures, I find quite depressing and despicable.

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Women without prospect, who lead dull earnest lives and rejoice in their petty little pseudo-pleasures, I find quite depressing and despicable.

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