Amiss Quotes

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

Fire, Play, Cannot

A little disdain is not amiss; a little scorn is alluring.
William Congreve

Disdain, Scorn, Alluring

Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what isn't there.
Donald Rumsfeld

Tell, Able, Few

All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.
Richard Barnfield

Love, Faith, Heart

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.
Miguel de Cervantes

Wrong, Miss, Forever

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.
Wislawa Szymborska

Hard, Words, Try

When I'm stuck in my writing, the world is amiss. If I'm eating a sandwich, it's an unsettled sandwich. If I'm in the shower, it's an incorrect shower. It's profoundly uncomfortable. But it's what keeps me pushing.
Melissa Rosenberg

Writing, Eating, Stuck

If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
Lajos Kossuth

Country, Guilty, Conscience

If I read not amiss, this powerful race will move down upon Mexico, down upon Central and South America, out upon the islands of the sea, over upon Africa and beyond. And can any one doubt that the results of this competition of races will be the 'survival of the fittest?'
Josiah Strong

Powerful, Doubt, Down

A ballad once in a while doesn't go amiss.
Chrissie Hynde

Once, While, Ballad

Anyhow, a philosophical turn of thought now was not amiss, else one's patience would have given out almost at the harbour entrance. The term of her probation was eight days.
Joshua Slocum

Patience, Thought, Else

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.
George Crabbe

Love, Nothing, Loved

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.
Edward Dowden

Poetry, Sense, Poet

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