“Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 108 of 303
“Speaking of opinions, the charming woman does not air hers very freely. The crude woman is eager to let you know what she thinks of every matter, person or object that bobs up. She comments on every passing item - even in public, as you may have noticed. Not only is it bad taste for her to be so desperately interested in her own reactions and opinions - but she throws away the precious aura of reserve and mystery that makes a woman attractive.”
“I want to avoid sounding like I'm criticizing because I don't have all the facts in front of me yet. And I am trying to be a unifier.”
“People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America.”
“Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.”
“Hear Everything and judge for yourself”
“Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.”
“First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.”
“One's life story cannot be told with complete veracity. A true autobiography would have to be written in states of mind, emotions, heartbeats, smiles and tears; not in months and years, or physical events. Life is marked off on the soul by feelings, not by dates.”
“Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him.”
“These principles laid down as in variable rules: that one must pay a card sharper, but need not pay a tailor; that one must never tell a lie to a man, but one may to a woman; that one must never cheat any one, but one may a husband; that one must never pardon an insult, but one may give one and so on. These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.”
“Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.”
“Sometimes we have to change the truth in order to remember it.”
“Admiration and familiarity are strangers.”
“Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable.”
“A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions.”
“Freethinkers are occasionally thoughtful, though never free.”
“But the disparaging of those we love always alienates us from them to some extent. We must not touch our idols; the gilt comes off in our hands.”
“He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.”
“Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.”