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Quotes About Abusing

But I,' said Lymond, 'am one of the new apostles, seeking nothing but voluptuousness and human pleasures, and abusing the world.…
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
~ William Shakespeare
Why does Mosley always speak as though he were a feudal landlord abusing tenants who are in arrears with their rent ?
~ Clement Attlee
Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.
~ David Ricardo
It was curious to note the effect of the alcohol upon the dentist. It did not make him drunk, it made him vicious. So far from being stupefied, he became, after the fourth glass, active, alert, quick-witted, even talkative; a certain wickedness stirred in him then; he was intractable, mean; and when he had drunk a little more heavily than usual, he found a certain pleasure in annoying and exasperating Trina, even in abusing and hurting her.
~ Frank Norris
Freedom of speech doesn't mean to constitute insulting, abusing, and harming deliberately in a distinctive and discriminative feature and context; whereas, supporting such notions and attempts is a universal crime.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Hank and I were accused of abusing our authority by allegedly forcing Bank of America to go through with the deal.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Thousands of hours they've been up studying and highlighting Bible passages while I've been sleeping, or watching baseball, or abusing myself carnally on a recliner.
~ Joshua Ferris
Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English.
~ William Shakespeare
And do you not also think, as I do, that the harsh feeling which the many entertain towards philosophy originates in the pretenders, who rush in uninvited, and are always abusing them, and finding fault with them, who make persons instead of things the theme of their conversation? and nothing can be more unbecoming in philosophers than this.
~ Plato