Nature of man Quote by H.G. Wells

“behind a very sturdily built and staunchly defended facade of practical, unromantic hard-headedness towards life, there was just that little pool of softness that…

— Isaac Asimov

“Even Polly seemed impressed, for he called her a good girl, blessed her buttons, and begged her to "come and take a walk, dear",…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Rather, he found himself enchanted with examples of simple human error, mundane malfunctions and mechanical glitches. The sheer variety of things that could and…

— Wendy Brenner

“He looked like a man who was turning into paper, folding himself into origami angles, fragile and friable and prone to crumple.”

— Alex Beecroft

“Be pollyanish for this day and age, and give substance to your time to come.”

— Anyaele Sam Chiyson

“Everywhere he looked was a nut, and it was all a sensible young gentleman like himself could do to maintain his perspective amid so…

— Joseph Heller

“His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten…

— Marcel Proust

“Given our new situation, I think you should find a more appropriate way to address me Polly. Do so now please.” I don’t even…

— Felicity Brandon

“This apparent hurly-burly and disorder turn out, after all, to reproduce real life with its fantastic ways more accurately than the most carefully studied…

— Théophile Gautier

“A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank. Its precise…

— Edward Morgan Forster

“It's at moments like these in a game that the essentials of his character are exposed: narrow, ineffectual, stupid—and morally so. The game becomes…

— Ian McEwan

“he had turned unfathomability into an art form. He attacked everything in life with a mixture of extraordinary genius and naïve incompetence and it…

— Douglas Adams