Attention Quote by Horace Walpole

“Paradox is beloved of novelists. The despised savior, the humane whore, the selfish man suddenly munificent, the wise fool, and the cowardly hero. Most…

— Thomas Keneally

I'll just take amusement at being a paradox.

— Burgess Meredith

“The paradox is “a situation, person, or thing that combines contradictory features or qualities.”

— Pearl Zhu

“Those who think they are destined for the high offices of state, should make themselves remarkable; for if a man aspire to distinction, he…

— John Galt

“Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world…

— Martha N. Beck

People who express themselves in paradoxes are in a strong position; and the more outrageous the paradox, in general the stronger the position.

— Bernard Williams

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“At times, one can win clever people over to a principle merely by presenting it in the form of an outrageous paradox.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no paradox. There is only irony.

— Philip K. Jason

“I never use paradox. The statements I make are wearisome and obvious common sense. I have even been driven to the tedium of reading…

— G.K. Chesterton

The grand paradox of our society is this: we magnify man’s right but we minimize his capacities.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-”

— Stephen King