INDIFFERENCE

Related Subjects: Attention, Contempt, Idleness, Mediocrity, Neglect, Neutrality, Scorn

1. The earth revolves with me, yet makes no motion,
   The stars pale silently in a coral sky,
   In a whistling void I stand before my mirror,
   Unconcerned, and tie my tie.—CONRAD AIKEN, Morning Song of Senlin
   

2. Moral indifference is the malady of the cultivated classes.—AMIEL, Journal
   

3. The cat is in the parlor, the dog is in the lake;
   The cow is in the hammock—what difference does it make?—Anonymous
   

4. I care not two-pence.—BEAUMONT & FLETCHER, The Coxcomb
   

5. The whole frame of things preaches indifferency.—EMERSON, Essays
   

6. The tragedy of love is indifference.—SOMERSET MAUGHAM, The Trembling of a Leaf
   

7. Happy are the men whom nature has buttressed with indifference and cased in stoicism.—MAUPASSANT, After
   

8. Indifference is the invincible giant of the world.—OUIDA
   

9. Diffidence is the right eye o f prudence.—Proverb
   

10. At length the morn and cold indifference came.—NICHOLAS ROWE, The Fair Penitent
    

11. A man whose blood
    Is very snow-broth; one who never feels
    The wanton stings and motions of the sense.—SHAKESPEARE, Measure for Measure

12. I am a man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.—TERENCE, Heauton Timoroumenos