Dereliction Quotes

A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction.

An officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.

When writers for adults contemplate Venice, they behold decay, dereliction and death. Thomas Mann, Daphne du Maurier, L. P. Hartley and Salley Vickers have all dispatched hapless protagonists to Italy, where they see Venice - and die.

At a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility; at worst, lying, incompetence and corruption.

In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.

Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude.

To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction.

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

Oh, I haven't reached any peak. I hit the bottom in the '60s. When a certain actress undertook the leading role in a recent play of mine, she referred to me as "that old derelict." Not to my face, but behind my back.