66 Inveterate Quotes

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Famous Inveterate Quotes

Character is long-standing habit. — Plutarch

Nothing is stronger than habit. — Ovid

A thing's innate disposition does not lie. — Said Nursi

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. - Winston Churchill

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. — Winston Churchill

Character is simply habit long continued. — Plutarch

What's bred in the bone will stick to the flesh. — Aesop

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age. — George Santayana

I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool. — Bertrand Russell

Don't like to do anything half-heartedly, even if it is a wicked and self-destructive avocation like smoking cigars — Curtis LeMay

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit. — Samuel Beckett

The leopard does not change his spots. - William Shakespeare

The leopard does not change his spots. — William Shakespeare

Persistent work triumphs. — Virgil

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity. — Saint Augustine

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. - Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit. — Desiderius Erasmus

The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. — Herbert Kaufman

Short Inveterate Quotes

  • I'm an inveterate fox and not a hedgehog, so I always think you should try everything — Clifford Geertz
  • A country of inveterate, backwoods, thick-headed, egotistic philistines — Vladimir Lenin
  • Hatred is inveterate anger. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Inveterate creationists, then or now, never allow their faith to fall victim to facts. — Robert T. Bakker
  • I read a lot. I am an inveterate reader. I always have a novel going. — Sayings
  • As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist. — John Green

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More Inveterate Quotes

True religion is a revolutionary force: it is an inveterate enemy of oppression, privilege, and injustice. — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. — Edith Wharton

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving

There are always surprises. Life may be inveterately grim and the surprises disproportionately unpleasant, but it would be hardly worth living if there were no exceptions, no sunny days, no acts of random kindness. — T.C. Boyle

Above all, it behooves us to repress, and if possible to extinguish once and for all, our inveterate tendency to judge others by the extent to which they contrive to be like ourselves. — George F. Kennan

Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated. — George Washington

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other. — Diogenes

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind. — Willard Van Orman Quine

This great, though disastrous, culture can only change as we begin to stand off and see... the inveterate materialism which has become the model for cultures around the world. — Arthur Erickson

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room. — Ernest Dimnet

The book borrower...proves himself to be an inveterate collector of books not so much by the fervor with which he guards his borrowed treasures...as by his failure to read these books. — Walter Benjamin

When performing an autopsy, even the most inveterate spiritualist would have to question where the soul is. — Anton Chekhov

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. — William Booth

Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated. — George Washington

A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. — Florence Nightingale

True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to 'principles,' and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution. — William James

I am an inveterate homemaker, it is at once my pleasure, my recreation, and my handicap. Were I a man, my books would have been written in leisure, protected by a wife and a secretary and various household officials. As it is, being a woman, my work has had to be done between bouts of homemaking. — Pearl S. Buck

Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. This is the first step towards becoming either estimable or agreeable; and until it be taken there is no hope. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it. Sometimes the great truth is found out too late to apply to it any effectual remedy. Sometimes it is never found at all; and these form the desperate and inveterate causes of folly, self-conceit, and impertinence. — Lord Melbourne

Only professional diplomats, inveterate idiots and women view diplomacy as a long-term substitute for war. — David Mitchell

I believe no satirist could breathe this air. If another Juvenal or Swift could rise up among us tomorrow, he would be hunted down. If you have any knowledge of our literature, and can give me the name of any man, American born and bred, who has anatomized our follies as a people, and not as this or that party; and who has escaped the foulest and most brutal slander, the most inveterate hatred and intolerant pursuit; it will be a strange name in my ears, believe me. — Charles Dickens

There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large. — William Booth

And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. — Edmund Burke

I've been an inveterate reader of literary magazines since I was a teenager. There are always discoveries. You're sitting in your easy chair, reading; you realize you've read a story or a group of poems four times, and you know, Yes, I want to go farther with this writer. — Marilyn Hacker

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback. — Charles Spurgeon

Neither the inveterateness of the mischief, nor the prevalency of the fashion, shall be any excuse for those who will not take care about the meaning of their own words, and will not suffer the insignificancy of their expressions to be inquired into. — John Locke

I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation. — Jack Kirby

To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. — Edmund Burke

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at all, that we reduce an eternity to nothingness, and expand a mere nothing to an eternity; and this habit is so inveterately rooted in us that all the force of reason cannot induce us to lay it aside. — Blaise Pascal

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Resist beginnings: it is too late to employ medicine when the evil has grown strong by inveterate habit. — Ovid

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred. — Buzz Bissinger

The masters and grandmasters can be divided into three groups - the inveterate time trouble merchants, those who sometimes get into trouble, and those for whom the phenomenon is a very rare occurence. — Alexander Kotov

Men met each other with erected look, The steps were higher that they took; Friends to congratulate their friends made haste, And long inveterate foes saluted as they pass'd. — John Dryden

Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron

Ireland, Ireland. That cloud in the west, that coming storm. That minister of God's retribution upon cruel, inveterate, and but half-atoned injustice! Ireland forces upon us those great social and great religious questions. God grant that we may have courage to look them in the face! — William E. Gladstone

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting. — Grover Cleveland

An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts. — Juvenal

Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading. — Florence Nightingale

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