1,424 quotes found
“I can't believe that out of 100 000 sperm you were the quickest.”
“I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.”
“If I try to be like him who will be like me?”
“Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.”
“It is thus with most of us we are what other people say we are. We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay.”
“Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.”
“Oozing charm from every pore He oiled his way around the floor.”
“Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.”
“They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.”
“We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of us.”
“When they came to shoe the horses the beetle stretched out his leg.”
“It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals or in any distinguished collection with aplomb -and not culture or any intellect whatever.”
“Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.”
“Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for one's own benefit is evil. Thus the beneficiary of an action is the only criterion of moral value ...”
“To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.”
“I was born modest not all over but in spots.”
“If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.”
“You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.”
“Character is what God and the angels know of us reputation is what men and women think of us.”
“Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits that which he has and that which he thinks he has.”
