The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is… — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required. — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
Foreign policy should not be justified through making oneself feel good, but through results that have tangible consequences. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
One does not really feel much grief at other people's sorrows; one tries, and puts on a melancholy face, thinking oneself brutal… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare… — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
It is by extending oneself, by exercising some capacity previously unused that you come to a better knowledge of your own potential. — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
I think one of the things that I took from Mel [Bochner] specifically was his ability to look at oneself and one's… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
There is an instinct for realism, a powerful drive to reproduce oneself. The fascination of photorealistic paintings lies partly in their apparent… — Audrey Flack Copy Share Image
It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Total surrender to the will of God actually is sacrificing oneself as a burnt offering to God. The proof of this state… — Lorenzo Scupoli Copy Share Image
To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To deny oneself is to be aware only of Christ and no more of self, to see only Him who goes before… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to… — Aubrey Menen Copy Share Image
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous… — Harlan Ellison Copy Share Image
To laugh at others is egoistic; to laugh at oneself is very humble. Learn to laugh at yourself - about your seriousness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The chief requirement of the good life, is to live without any image of oneself. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
