Acting Quote by Jeremy Collier

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he…

— Washington Irving

A man's opinion is in others; his being is in himself.

— Joseph Hall

Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and…

— Michel de Montaigne

Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what…

— James Anthony Froude

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

— John Webster

An honest, sensible, humane man, . . . laboring to do good rather than be rich, to be useful rather than make a show,…

— John Adams

When [man] is happy he takes his happiness as it comes and doesn't analyze it, just as if happiness were his right.

— Luigi Pirandello

The unhappy of all men is he who believes himself to be so.

— David Hume

'Tis certain that a serious attention to the sciences and liberal arts softens and humanizes the temper, and cherishes those fine emotions in which…

— David Hume

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

— Publilius Syrus

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld