#deserved

The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#ax #deserved #exactly #flatter #head

Can you imagine the most trusted man in America? Cronkite deserved it too. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#cronkite #deserved #imagine #man #most

Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#dignity #insist #office #show #their

Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#better #day #days #deserved #doubt

I have deserved neither so much honor or so much disgrace. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#disgrace #honor #i #much #neither

Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#cases #deserved #most #reputation #well

Undeserved praise causes more pangs of conscience later than undeserved blame, but probably only for this reason, that our power of judgment are more completely exposed by being over praised than by being unjustly underestimated. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#blame #causes #completely #conscience #exposed

In view of the meaning given to this honor in the community to which I belong, I should abstain from the undeserved prize that has been awarded to me. Do not meet my voluntary refusal with ill will. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#awarded #been #belong #community #given

To be compared to Jackie Robinson is an enormous compliment, but I don't think it's necessarily deserved. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#compliment #deserved #enormous #i #jackie

We deserved it. I mean, if you get a pummeling, you deserved it. But isn't it wonderful to remember a time that America was once so innocent that all we had to worry about was the next "Batman" movie? ↗

— Joel Schumacher

#america #batman #deserved #get #had