Flippant Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Two features in his personality make-up stand out as particularly pathological. The first is his ‘paranoid’ orientation toward the world. He is suspicious and…

— Truman Capote

What man condemns in others, he attracts to himself.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

He who indulges his sense in any excesses renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and, to gratify the brute in him, displeases the…

— Walter Scott

If the man succeeds in becoming indifferent to the opinions of his neighbors he runs into another danger, that of a distorted and extravagant…

— Charles Horton Cooley

“It is the habit of the envious man to absolve himself of public wrongs with his own personal grievances.”

— Victor Hugo

“No one is despised by others unless he be previously despised by himself: a groveling and abject mind may fall an easy prey to…

— Seneca

All violation of established practice implies in its own nature a rejection of the common opinion, a defiance of common censure, and an appeal…

— Samuel Johnson

He who stands aloof runs the risk of believing himself better than others and misusing his critique of society as an ideology for his…

— Theodor Adorno

One who, professing virtues that he does not respect, secures the advantage of seeming to be what he despises.

— Ambrose Bierce

“A person who treats someone unfairly may start to show a tendency to be unfair to other people, or he may regret what he…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

A man who prides himself on being better than his fellow-men thinks it a disgrace if he does not do something more than they…

— Saint Bernard

“Warning to the despised. – If you have unmistakably sunk in the estimation of men you should hold on like grim death to decorum…

— Friedrich Nietzsche