Unwelcome Quotes - Page 4

• The dog is guided by kindly instinct to the man or woman whose heart is open to his advances. The cat often leaves the friend who courts her, to honor, or to harass, the unfortunate mortal who shudders at her unwelcome caresses.

  Agnes Repplier

  Dog, Heart, Cat

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• I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

  Sarah Kay

  Trying, World, May

  Interview with Jennifer Messing, journalwomenwriters.wordpress.com. August 5, 2014.

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• The greatest mercy, I have often thought, of the Mediterranean coast lies in its mosquitoes. Did we not suffer from their unwelcome attention, we could not bear our holidays to end.

  Winifred Holtby

  Travel, Lying, Holiday

  Winifred Holtby (1937). “Pavements at Anderby: tales of "South riding" and other regions by Winifred Holtby”

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• I know a few things to be true. I do not know where I am going, where I have come from is disappearing, I am unwelcome and my beauty is not beauty here. My body is burning with the shame of not belonging, my body is longing.

  Warsan Shire

  Burning, Body, Longing

  Warsan Shire, “Conversations About Home (At The Deportation Centre)”

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• I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

  Boy George

  Years, Four, Four Years

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• Few of the great creators have bland personalities. They are cantankerous egotists, the kind of men who are unwelcome in the modern corporation.

  David Ogilvy

  Men, Personality, Corporations

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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