Ability Quote by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

— Sophocles

Arrogance would bother me, but I haven't really come into contact with that too much. I guess it depends on the person because one…

— Emma Stone

One of the great tragedies of life, it seems to me, is when a person classifies himself as someone who has no talents or…

— Marvin J. Ashton

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

Disgust is the appropriate response to most situations

— Jenny Holzer

Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred,…

— Johannes Brahms

“There are people who take exceeding pleasure in their own irritable touchiness, especially when it reaches the final limit (which always happens very quickly);…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes…

— Dalai Lama

People often imagine that being hard to please confers a certain superiority.

— Mason Cooley

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions…

— Charles Kuralt

“Any person's meanness of character and silliness of mind can be ugly and also seen in every activity and performance of that person, who…

— Ehsan Sehgal