Humiliation Quote by Henning Mankell

He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do…

— Anonymous

“all his life he had “endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“His rules were thus: One, resist when beneficial to the cause. Two, dignity before humiliation. Three, don’t show true emotions.”

— Courtney Kirchoff

“It was difficult to understand him. On the one hand he pandered even to the most unimportant things while on the other he was…

— Heinz Linge

“during that time he made me feel what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable man can inflict on one who…

— Charlotte Brontë

His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything.

— Jane Austen

He had a cringing manner, but a very harsh voice; and his blandest smiles were so extremely forbidding, that to have had his company…

— Charles Dickens

His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible,…

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

“He was a sensitive man and many people had caused him anguish.”

— Gil Brewer

He was a vicious hurtful snob, I must confess. I literally despised him in the best kind of a way.

— Sara Bokhari

“He did not expect reasonable conduct from human beings; most people were candidates for protective restraint. He simply wished they would leave him alone!—all”

— Robert A. Heinlein

“He was entirely rid of his nervous misgivings, of his forced aggressiveness, of the imperative desire to show himself different from his surroundings. He…

— Willa Cather