Life Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter,…

— Olaf Stapledon

“I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life”

— Sherwood Anderson

“...very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had…

— Jane Goodall

“W is for Women. They're awful, mendacious, Nasty and selfish, cruel and salacious, As thievish as gypsies, more crazy than Celts. Be sure that…

— P.J. O'Rourke

“I must not forget that these coarsely-clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of the gentlest genealogy; and…

— Charlotte Bronte

“A life sustained by quietude and the energies of tolerance, kindness, courtesy, and acceptance. In a blustery world, it's courageous to move quietly, claiming…

— William Norwich

“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the…

— Virginia Woolf

“They live beyond the quick ghetto. In hovels. In the shantytown.' He smiled. 'And every night, after the sun's descended, they can crawl safely…

— China Miéville

“Ordinary people who live their lives peacefully, whose days gently resemble each other, may happen one day to stop and wonder why and what…

— Haim Shapira

“I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the…

— L. Frank Baum

“You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. Living, as you all do,…

— Oscar Wilde