“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet
“Nothing in excess, including self-denial.”
Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 2 “The Peaches of Forever” (p. 29)
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Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer
“Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.”
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist
Sometimes quoted with the spelling "forgo", but Bierce used "forego" in his 1911 Collected Works
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Colin Wilson book The Outsider
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George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
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Emma Goldman (1868–1940) anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches
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James Hudson Taylor (1832–1905) Missionary in China
(J. Hudson Taylor. A Ribband of Blue and Other Bible Studies. London: China Inland Mission, n.d., 113).
“It would be a great things, a brave thing, for the Hindus to achieve act of self-denial.”
Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948) pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-ruled India
Mahatma Gandhi, Young India, 12 March 1931. Quoted from Hinduism and Judaism compilation https://web.archive.org/web/20060423090103/http://www.nhsf.org.uk/images/stories/HinduDharma/Interfaith/hinduzion.pdf <br class="br">1930s
“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.”
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
"On Bright Old Things — and Other Things" in Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays (1932)