« All Bad Quotes · Alain de Botton's Page
Bad Quotes by Alain de Botton
- On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live in. We tend to become…
- The fear of saying something stupid (which stupid people never have) has censored far more good ideas than bad ones.
- Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.
- Bad architecture is in the end as much a failure of psychology as of design. It is an example expressed through materials of the same…
- We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a…
- We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.…
- Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
- The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
More Bad Quotes
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner. — Aristophanes
- Bad men are full of repentance. — Aristotle
- It is the role of good journalism to take on powerful abusers, and when powerful abusers are taken on, there's always a… — Julian Assange
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have… — Karen Armstrong
- If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
- People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it… — David Arquette
- If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the… — Arthur Ashe
- From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe