Quote by John Keats
I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman — they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence. – John Keats

Other quotes by John Keats

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

Category:
Illusion
Read Quote

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. – John Keats

Category:
Beauty
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Independence
category

I am lord of myself, accountable to none. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Independence

God helps them that help themselves. – Proverb

Category:
Independence

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Independence

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Category:
Independence

Random Quotes

Conscience whispers, but interest screams aloud. – J. Petit-Senn

Category:
Self-Control

The first reason for the preponderant influence of those Evangelicals who define themselves as advocates of Religious Right theological and political ideologies is that they have both the financial means and technological know-how to make widespread use of modern electronic forms of communication. – Tony Campolo

Category:
communication

Lets just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. – Nancy Pelosi

Category:
Government

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. – Niccolo Machiavelli

Category:
Peace