“There are few people more convinced of their own genius than those who complain of how stupid they are.”
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“Loyalty is in most people only a ruse used by self-interest to attract confidence.”
“People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.”
“It's easier to know people in general than one person in particular”
“Happy people rarely correct their faults; they consider themselves vindicated, since fortune endorses their evil ways.”
“The generality of friends puts us out of conceit with friendship; just as the generality of religious people puts us out of conceit with religion.”
“Fearlessness is a more than ordinary strength of mind, which raises the soul above the troubles, disorders, and emotions which theprospect of great dangers are used to produce. And by this inward strength it is that heroes preserve themselves in a calm and quiet state, and enjoy a presence of mind and the free use of their reason in the midst of those terrible accidents that amaze and confound other people.”
“Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new.”
“There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.”
“Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.”
“He that fancies such a sufficiency in himself that he can live without all the world is greatly mistaken; but he that imagines himself so necessary that other people cannot live without him is a great deal more mistaken.”
“Some people are like popular songs that you only sing for a short time.”
“We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.”
“I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.”
“It would be bad form for me to describe people I don't know and don't understand.”
“The happiness of people who are in love and who are loved shows in their faces. They have an expression that's at once very far away and very much part of the present.”
“All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.”
“No one talks about money more than people who have too much of it.”
“My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.”
“America has only 100 Senators for 309 million people, but Stormont has 108 members for 1.7 million.”