Betrayed Quote by Edmond de Goncourt Download Open image “Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.” — Edmond de Goncourt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Betrayed Mind Organs Psychology
There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man. — William Cowper Copy Share Image
“A man betrayed by life's rats either hates and seeks eternal revenge, or forgives and seeks eternal distance; A man honored by life's faithful… — Mark O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A man with delicately-strung nerves often says and does things which often lead us to think more meanly of him than he deserves. It is his great misfortune constantly to present himself at his worst. On the other hand, a man provided with nerves vigorously constituted, is provided also with a constitutional health and a hardihood wich express themselves brightly… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share
“In a sort of ghastly simplicity, we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The gentle mind by gentle deeds is known, For a man by nothing is so well betrayed As by his manners. — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to [profess] things he does not believe, he has… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Princes enjoy themselves like children in the company of ordinary human beings. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
“[He] went on to say that during all those years he had done nothing at all, that all he had felt had been a… — Edmond De Goncourt Copy Share Image
A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are. The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share
Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
She is unable to dream, think or love. In a woman, poetry never comes naturally, but always as the result of education. Only the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Any man who does not see everything in terms of self, that is to say who wants to be something in respect of other… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Laughter is the mind's intonation. There are ways of laughing which have the sound of counterfeit coins. — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
We are all too keenly aware that those of you who supported us by purchasing the 3DS in the beginningmay feel betrayed and criticize… — Satoru Iwata Copy Share Image
In tragic life, God wot, No villain need be! Passions spin the plot: We are betrayed by what is false within. — George Meredith Copy Share Image
The mantra of the new historicists was "we have betrayed ourselves." Since their emergence, there have been more or less interesting paradigm shifts having… — Paul Fry Copy Share Image
It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten. — Stephen Grosz Copy Share Image
Rome has betrayed itself. It knew the truth and chose violence, it knew humaneness and it chose tyranny. — Friedrich Durrenmatt Copy Share Image
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern:… — Arthur Helps Copy Share
I'm a military man, I did what I did only because my country had to be saved from tribalism and feudalism. If I failed,… — Mengistu Haile Mariam Copy Share Image
To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share
“Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down again. Maybe nothing did work out right for her, but that… — V.C. Andrews Copy Share Image
When I was young, I had a favorite movie star. One day, I saw one of his movies, and it was bad, and he… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image