Benefactors Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause;…

— Henry Fielding

There are so many highly esteemed ones who became miserable and humiliated just because of their bad temper and morals; and humble people who…

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.

— Anonymous

A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its…

— Samuel Freeman Miller

“The irony is that their enthusiasm for personal revelation can backfire badly and have the opposite effect. People become their own worst enemies and…

— Susan C. Young

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“People learn to be hostile,disparaging and manipulative because it works for them.these people expect you to react in certain ways to their style,because in…

— Windy dryden

Affectation is to be always distinguished from hypocrisy as being the art of counterfeiting those qualities, which we might with innocence and safety, be…

— Samuel Johnson

“The (narcissitic) rage may turn into, or be accompanied by, a cold hatred that gives her qualities of power, invincibility, and calculation. This hatred…

— A.H. Almaas

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so…

— Saadi