"Belittle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... snapped, cutting in. "We will say, a little indiscreet. My errand is not concerned with Monsieur Marius's morals or with his lack of them. These indiscretions which you belittle appear to have been enough to have estranged him from his father, a circumstance which but served the more to endear him to his mother. I am told that she is a very handsome woman, and that the boy favours ...
— St. Martin's Summer • Rafael Sabatini
... most favourite novel in the English language, it has been so written that it would not have offended the author had he lived to read it, nor does it disgust or annoy those who most love the original. There is not a word in it having an intention to belittle Scott. It has sprung from the genuine humour created in Thackeray's mind by his aspect of the romantic. We remember how reticent, how dignified was Rowena,—how cold we perhaps thought her, whether ...
— Thackeray • Anthony Trollope
... easy at Las Guasimas," Elsie said, with a strained little laugh. "You remember the last war, mother; did you belittle ...
— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote
... think that several of your friends were warm enough towards you. "My God! my God! how mean literary men are!" A bit out of the correspondence of the first Napoleon. What a nice bit, eh? Doesn't it seem to you that they belittle ...
— The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters • George Sand, Gustave Flaubert
... family of nations in these latter times is the highest billow in humanity's evolution, the crowning effort of ages in the aggrandizement of man. Unless we take her in this altitude, we do not comprehend her; we belittle her towering stature and conceal the singular design of Providence in ...
— America First - Patriotic Readings • Various
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