Cheapen Quotes

“And an even worse example, I think, than the cheapening of the word CHARITY is the new newspaper cheapening of the word COURAGE.Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a play or a novel which causes a flutter and exchange of compliments in Chelsea and Chiswick and a faint thrill in Streatham and Surbiton, is described as "daring," though nobody on earth knows what danger it is that he dares. I speak, of course, of terrestrial dangers; or the only sort of dangers he believes in. To be extravagantly flattered by everybody he considers enlightened, and rather feebly rebuked by everybody he considers dated and dead, does not seem so appalling a peril that a man should be stared at as a heroic warrior and militant martyr because he has had the strength to endure it.”

“Your arrogance doesn't cheapen me.”

“Dear Single Ladies, Love is precious, Remember this: You are worth pursuing. Don't Cheapen Yourself”

“To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.”

“The world is cheapened when everyone sees it with a marketers eye.”

“Your joys and sorrows. You can never tell them. You cheapen the inside of yourself if you do tell them.”

“The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.”

“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”

“There are people one knows and people one doesn't. One shouldn't cheapen the former by feigning intimacy with the latter.”