Desertion Quotes

• Antes había dos clases de besos: Primero, cuando las chicas eran besadas y abandonadas; segundo, cuando estaban comprometidas. Ahora hay un tercer tipo, en el que el hombre es besado y abandonado. Si el Sr. Jones de los noventa presumía de haber besado a una chica, todo el mundo sabía que había terminado con ella. Si el Sr. Jones de 1919 presume de lo mismo, todo el mundo sabe que es porque ya no puede besarla. Con un buen comienzo, cualquier chica puede vencer a un hombre hoy en día.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Kissing, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.234, e-artnow

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• But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

  Susan Glaspell

  Brave, Desert, Gone

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• A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

  Séneca el Viejo

  Party, Philosophical, Two

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• You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Someone You Love, Want, Scar

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• my brain
  Worked with a dim and undetermined sense
  Of unknown modes of being; o'er my thoughts
  There hung a darkness, call it solitude
  Or blank desertion.

  William Wordsworth

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Darkness

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.638, Wordsworth Editions

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• I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

  Babe Paley

  Truth, Trust Issues, Matter

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• To seduce the enemies soldiers from their allegiance and encourage them to surrender is of special service, for an adversary is more hurt by desertion than by slaughter.

  Publio Flavio Vegecio Renato

  Hurt, Military, Soldier

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• For many women today, on a personal level, the problem is not male dominance so much as male desertion.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Males, Levels, Male Dominance

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• She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

  Graham Greene

  Sound, Noble

  Graham Greene (1974). "The end of the affair", Vintage

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• Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fear, Imagination, Worry

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• Christ and The Church: If he were to apply for a divorce on the grounds of cruelty, adultery and desertion, he would probably get one.

  Samuel Butler

  Divorce, Religion, Church

  Samuel Butler (1950). "El esencial Samuel Butler"

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• Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Class, Good Enough, Denied

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1777, e-artnow

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• You think death is any better an excuse for desertion than any other?

  Judith Martin

  Thinking, Excuse

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• The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

  Francisco Goya

  Madre, Sueño, Arte

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• This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.

  Virginia Woolf

  Echoes, Self, Sea

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1446, Delphi Classics

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• El Señor Jesús murió por los impíos. Él fue obediente a toda costa: Él cargó con todo, y bajó al polvo de la muerte, el odio del hombre, la deserción de Dios, y el poder de Satanás; lo encontramos allí a costa de todo. Todo lo que estaba contra nosotros fue eliminado. Por la obediencia de un hombre muchos son hechos justos.

  John Nelson Darby

  Jesus, Men, Dust

  Walter Thomas Turpin, John Nelson Darby, Algunos autores desconocidos, W. H. Broom (2015). "El amigo y el instructor del cristiano: Christian Magazine Volumen 3, Edición de 1876", p.42, Irving Risch

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• So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Girl, Hard Work, Brave

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Louisa May Alcott Premium Edition - 16 Novels in One Volume: Little Women Trilogy & Other Novels (Illustrated): Moods, The Mysterious Key and What It Opened, An Old Fashioned Girl, Work, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Under the Lilacs, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost, A Modern Mephistopheles…”, p.2170, e-artnow

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• Leave your bed upon the first desertion of sleep; it being ill for the eye's to read lying, and worse for the mind to be idle; since the head during that laziness is commonly a cage for unclean thoughts.

  Frances Osborne

  Lying, Sleep, Eye

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

  Samuel Beckett

  Art, World, Crafts

  Samuel Beckett, Ruby Cohn (1983). “Disjecta: miscellaneous writings and a dramatic fragment”, Calder Publications Limited

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• To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare to fail... failure is his world and the shrink from it desertion

  Marcel Proust

  Artist, World, Failing

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• The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Kings, Support

  Lysander Spooner (1971). "Las obras completas de Lysander Spooner"

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• Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

  Herman Melville

  Travel, Fire, Touching

  Herman Melville (2016). “Billy Budd, Bartleby, and Other Stories”, p.148, Penguin

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• No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeats…these are the facts.

  Alexander Trocchi

  Betrayal, Writing, Journey

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• [W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.

  Murray Rothbard

  Soldier, Enemy, Contentment

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• The year 1776, celebrated as the birth year of the nation and for the signing of the Declaration of Independence, was for those who carried the fight for independence forward a year of all-too-few victories, of sustained suffering, disease, hunger, desertion, cowardice, disillusionment, defeat, terrible discouragement, and fear, as they would never forget, but also of phenomenal courage and bedrock devotion to country, and that, too they would never forget.

  David McCullough

  Country, Fighting, Years

  David McCullough (2011). “David McCullough American History E-book Box Set: John Adams, 1776, Truman, The Course of Human Events”, p.643, Simon and Schuster

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