Damps A Quotes

Though the fact that they have to be rebuilt And frequently mortgaged to the hilt Is inclined to take the gilt Off the gingerbread, And certainly damps the fun Of the eldest son. ~ Noel Coward

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. ~ William Hazlitt

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity. ~ Jonathan Mayhew

Who shall conceive the horrors of my secret toil as I dabbled among the unhallowed damps of the grave or tortured the living animal to animate the lifeless clay? ~ Mary Shelley

Philosophy, while it soothes the reason, damps the ambition. ~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton