Famous quotes containing the word thwarted:
“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”
—E.M. Cioran (b. 1911)
“He hath disgraced me, and hindered me half a million, laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am a Jew.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.”
—Charles Horton Cooley (1864–1929)