"Humiliate" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... peace, one which does not humiliate anybody, a peace without conquests, this is what we must demand. Every effort in this direction must be favourably received. The continuous and simultaneous affirmation of this desire, in all the belligerent countries, can alone put a stop to the bloody massacre before the complete exhaustion ...
— The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife • Edward Carpenter
... farming system; the extension of Italy proper from the Aesis to the Rubicon, and the conversion of Cisalpine Gaul into a province. It may be considered certain that he did all that he could to humiliate the equites; but the settlement of Italy was probably ...
— The Gracchi Marius and Sulla - Epochs Of Ancient History • A.H. Beesley
... time to the right bestowal of his numerous effects, about which he was particular, and Densher fairly found himself, so far as silence could go, questioning the representative of the palace. It didn't humiliate him now; it didn't humiliate him even to feel that that personage exactly knew how little he satisfied him. Eugenio resembled to that extent Sir Luke—to the extent of the extraordinary things with which his facial habit was compatible. By the time, however, ...
— The Wings of the Dove, Volume II • Henry James
... chance to humiliate and condemn a German. It may not be long ere your turn comes, and a German officer tells you what ...
— Dave Darrin After The Mine Layers • H. Irving Hancock
... me. She was a-tremble with a new excitement. Worse even than opthalmia neonatorum was plain speaking to a guest! "Mrs. Abbott, you humiliate me!" ...
— Sylvia's Marriage • Upton Sinclair
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