Personality Quotes

2694 Personality quotes by 1843 unique authors

I've never been a fan of personality-conflict burgers and identity-crisis omelets with patchouli oil. I function very well on a diet that consists of Chicken… — Tom Waits
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced… — Germaine Greer
When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume… — Douglas Coupland
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find. — William Shakespeare
It seems priggish or pollyannaish to deny that my intention in writing the work was to titillate the nastier propensities of my readers. My own… — Anthony Burgess
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points. — Ayn Rand
Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced… — Scott Westerfeld
It never occurred to him to be spiritually won over to the enemy. Many moderns, inured to a weak worship of intellect and force, might… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The more we let God take us over, the more truly ourselves we become - because He made us. He invented us. He invented all… — C.S. Lewis
We can choose to throw stones, to stumble on them, to climb over them, or to build with them. — William Arthur Ward
In our postmodern culture which is TV dominated, image sensitive, and morally vacuous, personality is everything and character is increasingly irrelevant. — David F. Wells
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am… — Florence King
It's funny how strangers can pass in front of you every day and all you see is a flat shadow, a vague outline, not noticing… — Gregory Galloway
Take someone who doesn't keep score, who's not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his… — Unknown Author
A person can't change all at once. — Stephen King
The cheesecake was smooth and lush, with the personality of a warm and well-to-do uncle who knows a hundred dirty jokes and will die of… — Don DeLillo
Storytelling awakens us to that which is real. Honest. . . . it transcends the individual. . . . Those things that are most personal… — Terry Tempest Williams
Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and… — Hermann Hesse
The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those… — Thomas Mann
The most elementary of good manners . . . at a social gathering one does not bring up the subject of personalities, sad topics or… — Laura Esquivel
Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering… — Erich Fromm
You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you… — Hermann Hesse
He has personality problems beyond the dreams of analysts. — Douglas Adams

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