(1240 quotes found)
“I wonder men dare trust themselves with men”
William Shakespeare
“Mirrors are ice which do not melt: what melts are those who admire themselves in them.”
Paul Morand
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them”
David Hume
“Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another”
W. H. Auden
“The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.”
Catherine Drinker Bowen
“There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.”
Victor Hugo
“National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services”
Corazon Aquino
“I'd have to say that, in general, models take themselves too seriously. Basically, they are genetic freaks who spend a couple of hours in hair and makeup.”
Rebecca Romijn Stamos
“For citizens who think themselves puppets in the hands of their rulers, nothing is more satisfying than having rulers as puppets in their hands.”
Pico Iyer
“People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.”
Wilhelm Stekel
