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Quotes About Mild

I don't really shout that much.
~ Bill O'Reilly
I think I'm pretty benign, really, mostly.
~ Sam Neill
I occasionally suffer from eczema but only very mildly.
~ Leo Sayer
I yearned for the kind of unseasoned telling foundIn legends, fairy tales, a tone licked cleanOver the centuries by mild old tongues,Grandam to cub, serene, anonymous.
~ James Merrill
His elder brother, grey eyes level, held his gaze. "Perfection frightens me," he said. "They're too good, Francis. What do you want this axe-edge for?" "To cut with," said Lymond, his voice mild.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
The people who hanged Christ never, to do them justice, accused him of being a bore - on the contrary, they thought him too dynamic to be safe. It has been left for later generations to muffle up that shattering personality and surround him with an atmosphere of tedium. We have efficiently pared the claws of the Lion of Judah, certified him meek and mild and recommended him as a fitting household pet for pale curates and pious old ladies.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Blau suffered from a mild form of messianism, an ailment as common among Jewish males as nearsightedness. (p. 264)
~ Rebecca Goldstein
O hushed October morning mild, Begin the hours of this day slow, Make the day seem to us less brief... Retard the sun with gentle mist; Enchant the land with amethyst.
~ Robert Frost
Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
~ Joseph Addison
That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.
~ William Butler Yeats
God give you pardon from gratitude and other mild forms of servitude.
~ Robert Creeley
The drive to Santa Fe on I-25 is midly zen. There are public road signs that say "Gusty Winds May Exist". This seems more like lazy philosophy than travel advice.
~ Chuck Klosterman
It's a mild hell so comfortable that it resembles heaven.
~ Edmund White
Viper: "The dark wizard and I had a mild disagreement." Dante: "What sort of disagreement?" Viper: "I thought he should be dead and he disagreed.
~ Alexandra Ivy
I've always preferred food be on the blander side.
~ Alexandra Paul
I like my coffee light.
~ Elizabeth Banks
I love really sweet, soft scents.
~ Nafessa Williams
I have a condition called Aspergers Syndrome, which is like a mild form of autism It means I don't interact properly in certain social situations.
~ Gary Numan
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
As quiet as a lamb.
~ William Shakespeare
Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing States, yet no part of our slave-holding country, is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants, than St. Louis. It
~ William Wells Brown
Emerson once remarked that if I should encounter a band of Dervishes, five minutes of my nagging would unquestionably inspire even the mildest of them to massacre me....
~ Elizabeth Peters
The days are unexpectedly mild. It doesn't feel that far from summer, not really, if it weren't for the underbite of the day, the lacy creep of the dark and the damp at its edges, the plants calm in the folding themselves away, the beads of the condensation on the webstrings hung between things.
~ Ali Smith
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them. The king will not have the same weaknesses as his grandfather. I hope that he will have no favorites; but I am afraid that he is too mild and too easy. You may depend upon it that I will not draw the king into any great expenses.
~ Marie Antoinette