[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper. — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
Coffee is a product favouring sociability, friendship, and conversation and it should always be consumed with someone else. — Ernesto Illy Copy Share Image
The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work. — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry. — Pittacus of Mytilene Copy Share Image
My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you… — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
Extraverts ... cannot understand life until they have lived it. Introverts ... cannot live life until they understand it. — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
I was very inventive. I lived in my own world - my dad said I was a loner. Not lonely, just happy… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Introversion - along with its cousins sensitivity, seriousness, and shyness - is now a second-class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
I love sharing photographs and websites, I'm for all of these things. I'm for Facebook. But to say that this is sociability?… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
Visiting is a pleasure; being visited is usually a mixed or ambivalent joy. ... The visitor can always go home; the visitee… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
There never was a woman so ill-suited to public life as I am. I have had to whip myself, as it were,… — Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie Copy Share Image
the present Western civilization ... is dominated by the extravert viewpoint. There are plenty of reasons for this domination: extraverts are more… — Isabel Briggs Myers Copy Share Image
“One’s desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
A constitution founded on these principles introduces knowledge among the people, and inspires them with a conscious dignity becoming freemen; a general… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Take a shot in front of D.L. Probing for a vein in my dirty bare foot... Junkies have no shame... They are… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
One day I shall write a little book of conduct myself, and I shall call it Social Problems of the Unsociable. And… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The need for sociability induce man to be in touch with his fellow men. However, this need might not ("ne saurait", Fr.)… — African Spir Copy Share Image
“We are born to talk to other people, ... we are born to be sociable and to sit together with others in… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
¢Your name of Bri creates a passive, friendly, easy-going nature, but your desire for sociability and the pleasant things in life makes… — Brianna Ramos Copy Share Image
“When you are alone in the wilderness, opinions or beliefs of any kind are dropped as the absurd accoutrements they are. But… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“For solitude confers a twofold advantage on the intellectually superior person; first of all, being on his own, and the second, not… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Thirteen Recurrent Domains of Human Concerns: Possible Breakdowns 1. BODY: health, sickness, injury, availability and unavailability for meetings and appointments. 2. PLAY… — Fernando Flores Copy Share Image
“ In many instances, a preoccupation with appearances--unrealistic social expectations, impossible standards--can be the single largest barrier to a satisfying social life.… — Jonathan Berent Copy Share Image
“[Emilio’s dinner with FM Banier] Gradually I abandon the conversation (suffering because the others might suppose I am doing so for reasons… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle... mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as… — Peter Kropotkin Copy Share Image
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