complain quotes

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Advice to Harold Nicholson.

Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, Like other farmers, flourish and complain.

-Crabbe, George
  Poems,'The Parish Register', pt.1, l.273^4.

The world isdisgracefully managed, onehardly knowsto whom to complain.

-Firbank, (ArthurAnnesley) Ronald
  Vainglory, ch.10.

We musn't complaintoomuch of being comediansöit's anhonourableprofession.Ifonly we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style.

-Greene, (Henry) Graham
  The Comedians, pt.2, ch.5.

Weep If you can, Weep, But do not complainö And you must be thankful.

-Hammarskjo«  ld, Dag HjalmarAgne Carl
Va«  gmarken (translated by L Sjsy«  berg and W H  Auden as Markings,1964).

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