Pride Quote by Joseph Brodsky Download Open image ““secrecy is a hotbed of vanity”” — Joseph Brodsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Pride
“You know how I love secrecy. It is the only thing that can make modern life wonderful or mysterious to us. The commonest thing… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Secrecy is like oxygen to politicians and defense forces; there’s always got to be some of it to keep them going.” — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
“The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it; for, however absurd… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“What reason for vanity in being plunged into impenetrable darkness?” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As long as the state permits itself to interfere in the affairs of literature, literature has the right to interfere with the affairs of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
For some odd reason, the expression 'death of a poet' always sounds somewhat more concrete than 'life of a poet.' — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
On the whole, love comes with the speed of light; separation, with that of sound. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I haven't shifted language. I'm writing in English because I like it. I'm a sucker for the language, but the good old poems I'm… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Perhaps the best proof of the Almighty's existence is that we never know when we are to die. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The instinctive preference was to read rather than to act. No wonder our actual lives were more or less a shambles” — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Americans have been tremendously fortunate in poetry, regarding both the quantity and quality of poetry produced. Unfortunately, it remains in schools and universities; it… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
There are things that you think about in your life that you're proud of, some things that you're not proud of. — Jim Kelly Copy Share Image
Be proud of who you are & who you represent.You are unique, there is no other exactly like you. — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
I get paid to play, to win, to give the city pride, so maybe everybody can forget for a little while how hard life… — Randall Cunningham Copy Share Image
“For all his frustrations and his chronic sense of being overburdened. He was proud of that; he’d always felt that it was worth doing… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Britain should take pride in a foreign policy that reflects her values and responsibilities - but it must be grounded in the tangible interests… — Dominic Raab Copy Share Image
“I take my actions because of my passion not because of compulsion.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Less of me and all I'm trying to be. Building my kingdom just to find it so short of your glory I'm a traitor… — Zion Y Lennox Copy Share Image
Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in… — Alfred the Great Copy Share Image
“Where there are kashays (anger-pride-deceit-greed), there is worldly life. As long as anger-pride-deceit-greed exist; one is a sansaari [living a worldly life] regardless of… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I kind of pride myself on coming onto things that are well-oiled machines and finding a way to bring what I bring and fit… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
