Pearls Before Swine Quotes:

But one thing I realized with my brother is that you can’t toss your pearls before the swine. I think that’s why my mother insisted you give anonymously. The instant anyone sees that you’re kind and giving, they immediately take advantage of it. They seem to mistake kindness for weakness and giving for stupidity. (Aiden)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.151, Macmillan

topic: Mother, Brother, Kindness, Swine, Kindness For Weakness

Age before beauty, and pearls before swine.

- Dorothy Parker

source: Dorothy Parker, Stuart Y. Silverstein (2009). “Not Much Fun: The Lost Poems of Dorothy Parker”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

topic: Age, Pearls, Youth, Pearls Before Swine

Should a reasonable person not demand that philosophy should not be foolishly purveyed before people incompetent to see the point of it, as pearls before swine? For Nietzsche is utterly correct: philosophy is only for the healthy and whole-minded, the sick it has always only made even sicker. By means of philosophy they dig themselves even deeper into their pathetic delusions.

- Kenny Smith

topic: Philosophy, Mean, People, Swine, Pearls Before Swine

Never cast pearls before swine.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Pearls, Swine, Casts, Pearls Before Swine

Men and girls, men and girls: Artificial swine and pearls.

- Gertrude Stein

topic: Girl, Men, Literature, Swine, Pearls Before Swine

I am really not "cyclonic" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this "cyclonic" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Swami Vivekananda on Himself”, p.141, Advaita Ashrama

topic: Men, Ideas, Perfect, Pearls Before Swine

Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.

- Stephan Pastis

topic: Writing, Schedules, Pearls, Pearls Before Swine, Seven Months

[After she and Clare Boothe Luce met in a doorway and the latter said, 'Age before beauty':] Pearls before swine.

- Dorothy Parker

topic: Age, Doorways, Pearls, Swine, Pearls Before Swine