Chide Quotes

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public. (Solon)

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight, When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Isaac Watts

While his off-heel, insidiously aside, Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I love it, I love it, and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?

Eliza Cook

The silver snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

John Keats

Lamachus chid a captain for a fault; and when he had said he would do so no more, "Sir," said he, "in war there is no room for a second miscarriage." Said one to Iphicrates, "What are ye afraid of?" "Of all speeches," said he, "none is so dishonourable for a general as ‘I should not have thought of it.'"

Plutarch

I held a jewel in my fingers And went to sleep. The day was warm, and winds were prosy; I said: "'T will keep." I woke and chid my honest fingers,- The gem was gone; And now an amethyst remembrance Is all I own.

Emily Dickinson

It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

Milan Kundera

Shine forth, thou star of poets, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping stage, Which, since thy flight from hence, hath mourn'd like night, And despairs day, but for thy volumes light.

Ben Jonson

Even so a crowd of nestlings, seeing their mother returning through the air afar, would fain go to meet her, and lean gaping from the edge of the nest, and would even now be falling, did she not spread all her motherly bosom to save them, and chide them with loving wings.

Statius

Back o'er the deep I turn my longing eyes,
And chide the wayward passions that rebel:
Yet boots it not to think, or to complain,
Musing sad ditties to the reckless main.
To dreams like these, adieu! the pealing bell
Speaks of the hour that stays not-and the day
To life's sad turmoil calls my heart away. (William Lisle Bowles)

While swimming in the heavily polluted rivers of south China, despite the pleadings of his security guards and his physician, he would chide his companions if they began to panic in the water Maybe you're afraid of sinking, Don't think about it. If you don't think about it, you won't sink. If you do, you will.

Mao Zedong

O what devouring kisses (multiplied) What pretty whimperings, did the grove repeat! What flattering force! What anger which did chide Itself, and laughed when it began to threat! What more than this the blushing Morning spied, And Venus (adding hers to the Noon's heat) Is better tried, than guessed, I must confess: But those who cannot try it, let them guess.

Luís de Camões