Character Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Perhaps, if you weren't so busy regarding my shortcomings, you'd find that I do possess redeeming qualities, discreet as they may be.  I notice…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“It is not even in extraordinary situations, where all eyes are upon us, where all our energy is aroused, and all our vigilance is…

— Albert Pike

“I detest that fatuity of mind which believes that what is explained is also excused; I hate that vanity which finds it interesting to…

— Benjamin Constant

“Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness?”

— Ryan Holiday

“I am very tolerant. I am not a moralist. I have too great a sense of the shortness of life and its temptations to…

— Virginia Woolf

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even…

— Emil Cioran

“I HAVE been profligate of happiness And reckless of the world’s hostility, The blessèd part has not been given to me Gladly to suffer…

— Anonymous

“I needed to pass on those secrets to a man I knew well. All my students are terribly virtuous and only show their good…

— Paulo Coelho

“nature I must take my place among the most sinful. I, who am altogether undeserving, am treated as if I had been deserving.”

— Charles H. Spurgeon

“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Since I myself never wish to suffer and always want to be happy, I must abandon and purify my non-virtuous actions and sincerely perform…

— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso