However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal. View quotes by Pliny The Younger
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth. View quotes by W B Yeats
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise. View quotes by Eric Hoffer
