Defects Quote by Isak Dinesen Download Open image “In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.” — Isak Dinesen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Defects Hidden Hidden Physical Man Secret Men Mind Nature Psychology Secrecy Secret Secret Ugly Ugly Ugly things
A man's true secrets are more secret to himself than they are to others. — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
It is the easiest thing in the world for a man to look as if he had a great secret in him. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not often hidden — only ugliness and deformity. — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The most difficult secret for a man to keep is the opinion he has of himself. — Marcel Pagnol Copy Share Image
There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The good thing about a secret is that women dont know what a secret is. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
What good is a secret if it remains a secret ... Secrets are meant to be discovered... — Jocelyn Murray Copy Share Image
There are some occasions in which a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest: but there is seldom one… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Your own self, your personality and existence are reflected within the mind of each of the people whom you meet, ... into a likeness,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
“It is more than their land that you take away from the people, whose Native land you take. It is their past as well,… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
There was a place in the Hills, on the first ridge in the Game Reserve, that I myself at the time when I thought… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
People who dream when they sleep at night know of a special kind of happiness which the world of the day holds not, a… — Isak Dinesen Copy Share Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw. — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Selfishness is one of the principal fruits of the corruption of human nature; and it is obvious that selfishness disposes us to over-rate our… — William Wilberforce Copy Share Image
Jesus never met a disease he could not cure, a birth defect he could not reverse, a demon he could not exorcise. But he… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
I don't want you to praise me...Some praise me because I am a colored girl, and I don't want that kind of praise. I… — Edmonia Lewis Copy Share Image
The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal… — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
Absence of defects does not necessarily build business... Something more is required. — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The essence of man is his freedom. Sin is committed in that freedom. Sin can therefore not be attributed to a defect in his… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can… — Jim Warner Copy Share Image