“People are more slanderous from vanity than from malice.”
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People Quotes — page 714 of 5018
“People would never fall in love if they hadn't heard love talked about.”
“There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.”
“What renders other people's vanity insufferable is that it wounds our own.”
“Tastes in young people are changed by natural impetuosity, and in the aged are preserved by habit.”
“There are people who, like new songs, are in vogue only for a time.”
“Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others.”
“We are always bored by the very people by whom it is vital not to be bored.”
“No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.”
“People in Northern Ireland vote for their church, they don't vote with their heads; it is ridiculous.”
“People are really rather afraid that this country might be rather swamped by people with a different culture.”
“You will only succeed if you know that what you are doing is right and you know how to bring out the best in people.”
“Most women are far more intelligent than people give them credit for.”
“Most people who are deemed 'mean' are usually perfectionist who make mediocre people unhappy, cause they put more pressure on them then they can handle.”
“You know, the elites always want to shame the poor - right? - and everyone else. I mean, the fact is, this economy is based on 70 percent of the people driving consumer demand. If people do not purchase goods and services, this economy will grind to recession. And that is why, if you are going to do a tax cut, it ought to really be aimed at low-income and middle-income people.”
“There never was a social change in America without angry people at the heart”
“I do not care about the greatest good for the greatest number . . . Most people are poop-heads I do not care about them at all.”
“The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist”
“I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing”
“Youth is just wasted on young people.”