Human nature Quote by Evelyn Waugh

“Listen: this story's one you ought to know, You'll reap the consequence of what you sow. This fleeting world is not the world where…

— Firdowsi

“And of all the plagues with which mankind are cursed, Ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”

— Daniel Defoe

“It was not the privileged and the fortunate who took in the Jews in France. It was the marginal and damaged, which should remind…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“The unchanging Man of history is wonderfully adaptable cloth by his power of endurance and in his capacity for detachment. The fact seems to…

— Joseph Conrad

“It makes me wretched, Wilhelm, to think that there should be men incapable of appreciating the few things which possess a real value in…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it seemed that the human heart,…

— Dean Koontz

“What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the…

— Lance Colkmire

“This recurred to his mind unceasingly. To this celestial kindness he opposed pride, which is the fortress of evil within us. He was indistinctly…

— Victor Hugo

“And how can man die better than by facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods.”

— Anonymous

“…Or he could choose life. At that pivotal moment, it occurred to him that with all his schooling in theology he had, perhaps, missed…

— Richard Paul Evans

“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had to undergo…

— Jack Kerouac

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,…

— Charles Dickens