“I'm really private, and also, when I'm home, I'm home. I don't like people in on my business. I believe that you can be overexposed.”
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People Quotes — page 559 of 5018
“When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.”
“If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine.”
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
“Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.”
“Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.”
“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.”
“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”
“The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed.”
“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”
“Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity.”
“It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.”
“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.”
“People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.”
“Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.”
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
“Crowds of people moved through the streets with a dream-like violence.”
“This world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.”