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Persuade Quotes by Doris Lessing
- There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
- There is only one real sin, and that is to persuade oneself that the second-best is anything but the second-best
More Persuade Quotes
- When you have nothing important or interesting to say, don't let anyone persuade you to say it. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. — Winston Churchill
- Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi
- If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And… — John Cleese
- It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to… — Thomas Aquinas
- The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- All that remains to the mother in modern consumer society is the role of scapegoat; psychoanalysis uses huge amounts of money and… — Germaine Greer
- Violence ever defeats its own ends. Where you cannot drive you can always persuade. A gentle word, a kind look, a god-natured… — William Hazlitt