Malcontent Quotes

• The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

  Salvador Dali

  Success, Jealousy, Artist

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• The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible

  C. S. Lewis

  Praise, Crank, Made

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• A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

  Eric Hoffer

  Love, Peace, Dregs

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Stupid, Fear And Loathing, Hunters

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Rum Diary: Film Tie-in Edition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• Every American carries in his bloodstream the heritage of the malcontent and the dreamer.

  Dorothy Fuldheim

  Usa, Dreamer, Heritage

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• The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them.

  John McCain

  Political, Consciousness, Embedded

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The malcontent is neither well, full nor fasting; and though he abounds with complaints, yet nothing dislikes him but the present; for what he condemns while it was, once passed, he magnifies and strives to recall it out of the jaw of time. What he hath he seeth not, his eyes are so taken up with what he wants; and what he sees he careth not for, because be cares so much for that which is not.

  Joseph Hall

  Taken, Eye, Fasting

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• Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

  Louis XIV

  Office, Political, Ingrates

  Molière, quoting Louis XIV, "Siècle de Louis Quatorze" in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 610-613), 1922.

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• Thou art the Mars of malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Mars

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Edward Capell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.45

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• We have so many choices that it's only always our fault if we're malcontent.

  Ian Bogost

  Choices, Faults, Ifs

  Source: app.longform.org

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• You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.

  Charles Baxter

  Real, Satisfied, Can't Change

  Charles Baxter (2009). “The Feast of Love”, p.131, Vintage

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• The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

  A. A. Gill

  School, Thinking, Interesting

  "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

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• This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;
  Regent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,
  The anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,
  Liege of all loiterers and malcontents.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Senior, Dwarves

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 3, sc. 1, l. [189]

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• Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Daughter, Lonely

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses. He accepts victory professionally, humbly; he hates defeat, but makes no poor display of it.

  Dan Gable

  Leadership, Sports, Hate

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• In the taverns all was amiable and easy, but the coffeehouses were cauldrons of edgy malcontents.

  Barbara Holland

  Taverns, Easy, Cauldrons

  Barbara Holland (2008). “The Joy of Drinking”, p.34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are rejects looking for a way to get even with a world in which they are only a problem.The Hell's Angels are not visionaries, but diehards, and if they are the forerunners or the vanguard of anything it is not the "moral revolution" in vogue on college campuses, but a fast-growing legion of young unemployables whose untapped energy will inevitably find the same kind of destructive outlet that "outlaws" like the Hell's Angels have been finding for years.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Angel, College, Years

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• At any Trump rally, you could identify the malcontents and the bad actors. They were the leftists, trying to make themselves look like Trump supporters. But the real Trump supporter is somebody who is peaceful, who wants the country to get better, who wants things fixed. They're not lawbreakers. They operate within the bounds of law and order. They respect other people. They don't make a mess. They don't leave a bunch of trash and garbage around like leftist protesters do virtually everywhere they go.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Real, Order

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

  H. G. Wells

  Hate, Gun, Order

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• Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Lonely, Children

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• The capacity for "uncontaminated wonder," ultimately, is what distinguishes the successful from the ordinary, the happily engaged players of whatever era from the chronically disappointed and malcontent. Therein lies a lesson for geeks, geezers, and the sea of people who fall in between.

  Warren G. Bennis

  Lying, Fall, Successful

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.

  Dan Gable

  Motivational, Athlete, Space

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• ... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it becomes an efficient and beneficent world system. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order and will die protesting against it. When we attempt to evaluate its promise, we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents, many of them quite gallant and graceful-looking people.

  H. G. Wells

  Money, Disappointment, Hate

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• As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary action movement, the Black United Front, Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, Lions and Tigers alike - I would swap the whole damn zoo for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Zoos, Hippie, Black

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “The real Spiro Agnew: commonsense quotations of a household word”, Pelican Publishing Company

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• I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of far more interesting malcontents passed on.

  Wendy Wasserstein

  Success, Interesting, Curious

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