Quote by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“he came from a generation where teachers were revered and respected, not ridiculed and scorned.  And, perhaps, because he didn’t quite understand them, he…

— Terri Reid

“Resigned that those surrounding him had no idea who he was, and invariably kind to his social and intellectual inferiors, he sometimes felt doubly…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?”

— Milan Kundera

“Though I no longer liked him or respected him, the thought of his disapproval frightened me.”

— Walter Kirn

“He made so many people uneasy. Everyone was always very friendly toward him, and no one was ever very nice; everyone spoke to him,…

— Joseph Heller

“I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.”

— Osamu Dazai

“He could take advantage of me at any point in time that he preferred; the fact that he didn’t made me both admire him…

— Scott Hildreth

“What was it about scholarship and learning, he wondered, that seemed to wither the hearts of University men, leaving them incapable of loving anything…

— Ellen Kushner

“You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in…

— Joseph Conrad

“I liked him; not because he was a good sort, as he later proved to be, but because he was enthusiastic about things.”

— Jack Kerouac

“...there was almost no opinion, however nonsensical, that wasn't tolerated, at least for long enough for it to be delivered. But it wasn't just…

— Janet Hobhouse

“One could not help liking him and one could not avoid hating him; and sometimes one hated him when one liked himmost”

— Catherine Radziwill