Vex Quotations

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

It is always our inabilities that vex us.

From the midst of the very fountain of pleasure, something of bitterness arises to vex us in the flower of enjoyment.

We can more easily endure that which shames than that which vexes us.

This has to be the most self-centered thing I've ever said, but no, I think you just wanted to vex me.

It's the curse of motherhood. You're required to love us even when we vex you.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak!

O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Biography, too, is liable to the same objection; it should be autobiography. Let us not, as the Germans advise, endeavor to go abroad and vex our bowels that we may be somebody else to explain him. If I am not I, who will be?

I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the nature of adolescence itself or to the civilization? Under different conditions does adolescence present a different picture?

It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

It is not right to vex ourselves at things, for they care not about it.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things, they heed not thy vexations

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.