Quotes on Wince

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church.

The sense of unhappiness is so much easier to convey than that of happiness. In misery we seem aware of our own existence, even though it may be in the form of a monstrous egotism: this pain of mine is individual, this nerve that winces belongs to me and to no other. But happiness annihilates us: we lose our identity.

There are moments in life when all we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at the touch of consoling words, that would reveal the depths of our pain.