Affection Quote by Jean-Francois Lyotard

His wry sense of humour and his stalwart courage were an inspiring example to so many. His ability to laugh at Life's idiosyncrasies and…

— John McLeod

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His colleagues at the Bar called him Filth, but not out of irony. It was because he was considered to be the source of…

— Jane Gardam

“He seemed to see his fellow creatures grotesquely, and he was angry with them because they were grotesque; life was a confusion of ridiculous,…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant for him…

— Thomas Mann

“In one of his darker moments, the irony started him laughing and he couldn't stop, and the sounds that came from him, before finally…

— Laini Taylor

“Even the triumphant issue of his labors could not save him from reaction after so terrible an exertion, and at a time when Europe…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly and a…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“The audience looked at him. They felt he had no chance. They could drop the nameless resentment, the sense of insecurity which he aroused…

— Ayn Rand

“Amory, sorry for them, was still not sorry for himself - art, politics, religion, whatever his medium should be, he knew he was safe…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover…

— John Irving