Quotes About Beaten

This was not what Europe or Prussia had expected. In his childhood, Frederick had been a dreamy, delicate boy, often beaten by his father, King Frederick William I, for being unmanly. As an adolescent, he wore his hair in long curls hanging down to his waist, and costumed himself in embroidered velvet. He read French writers, wrote French poetry, and performed chamber music on the violin, the harpsichord, and the flute.

I just think humiliation really causes more harm than maybe being physically beaten.

The Imperial throne was occupied by Frederic III, who had been rightly named the Peaceful, not for the reason that he had always maintained peace, but because, having constantly been beaten, he had always been forced to make it.

who still hadn't lost interest in him and who, with their bulging lips, open mouths, and almost tortured faces—their heads looked as if they had been beaten flat on top and their features shaped in the pain of the beating

I'm a big Batman fan; to be honest, to be a part of any superhero movie would really fulfill all of my childhood fantasies. If I could get beaten up by Batman, and just be part of the franchise, even getting kicked through a window would be great!

Still, the fact that blackjack could be beaten led to an upsurge in play.

I've been given my money. Nobody has ever beaten me out of one quarter. And that's all I've ever been concerned about.

I sat down and wrote, 'Are your emotions pure? Are they the stuff of heroes or the alloyed mess of the beaten? How do you stand in relation to the potato?' And it was a lot of fun, and I kept going and woke up at some point in some horror that I had about 142 pages of this.

In 'A Scandalous Woman,' the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down - literally and figuratively - by Ireland's pious customs.

My heart sounded like a washtub being beaten with a leg of mutton.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

I, for one, am exhausted. I've been threatened, beaten, bitten and killed, and that was just in the last hour. (Jericho)

Anyone in your family not a killer? (Syd) After this I'm beginning to wonder if I don't have a serial mom. (Steele) I wish. She should have beaten you to death with a turkey leg. (Tina)

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

Eliza has no use for the foolish romantic tradition that all women love to be mastered, if not actually bullied and beaten.

Today I may advocate through my art, but I've won my share of 'hood fights.' So if I ever saw one of my sisters being beaten in the street, I'd be the first one to jump in.

Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.

Everything had a battered, trampled-on look, as though the place had just been visited by some large violent animal.

Aljo has already beaten a former world champion in Renan Barao, and I thought he fought masterfully, using all these ranges beautifully. He's like the Black Panther showing the world who he is.

I must look like hammered shit." "Actually, you look like you were executed last week.

He was swiftly overwhelmed in the shallows, prodded by barbed boar-spears, cornered, beaten, pulled up on the bank, a strange lake-birth, a loathsome catch...

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

Maxi Taxi, you've got him now, you've got him, Jew boy, you've got him, you've got him!" A small kid with soft tufts of hair, a beaten nose, and swampy eyes, Max was a good head shorter

He began to limp home, because home was where you went when you were hurt and beaten.