“When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting.”
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People Quotes — page 996 of 5018
“Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.”
“Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation.”
“Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared.”
“Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.”
“People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies.”
“That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.”
“There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.”
“In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
“Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?”
“I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.”
“It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”
“Now I have begun to get interested in films and I just hope that people start becoming interested in me to do more films.”
“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”
“The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me.”
“Few people want the pleasures they are free to take.”
“Some people think that because they do the opposite of what they are asked to do, they have initiative”
“The movies I've done with Wes [Anderson] have a much different quality than some of the more broad comedies. But what is interesting is how many sequels I've done. I've worked with Ben [Stiller] a million times now, and this is yet another sequel we're doing. I guess we're lucky to be in some movies that people wanted to see again.”
“It isn't so much that I choose the roles - I mean, I guess there's a little bit of a selection process - but it's more just what people offer you.”
“I only read on my phone and the whole "let's see if we can get people to do it" idea seems less "wouldn't it be cool if we could get people to do it" and more "what else would people do."”