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Tag Name "Chide" (14)

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Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.
Solon
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That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?
Gregory Maguire
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I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.
John Quincy Adams
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And who will care, who will chide you if you wander away from wherever you are, to look for your soul?
Mary Oliver
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it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.
Milan Kundera
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Ambition is frequently the only refuge which life has left to the denied or mortified affections. We chide at the grasping eye, the daring wing, the soul that seems to thirst for sovereignty only, and know not that the flight of this ambitious bird has been from a bosom or home that is filled with ashes.
William Gilmore Simms
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I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults.
William Shakespeare
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The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.
John Keats
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Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?
Juvenal
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The same reason that makes us chide and brawl and fall out with any of our neighbors, causeth a war to follow between Princes.
Michel de Montaigne
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Poets should be law-givers that is, the boldest lyric inspiration should not chide and insult, but should announce and lead the civil code, and the day's work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.
Walter Savage Landor
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Never chide with anger, but instruction.
William Penn
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I can give the loser leave to chide.
William Shakespeare