Eye Quote by Mario Puzo

He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a…

— Mario Puzo

“Besides, to be fair to him, his viciousness was perhaps not innate. From his earliest steps among men he had felt, then seen himself…

— Victor Hugo

He who is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge and we others will be his victims, if only in having always to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into…

— Baltasar Gracian

Man must have some recognized stake in society and affairs to knit him lovingly to his kind, or he is wont to revenge himself…

— Amos Bronson Alcott

He knows no other way but ugliness,” Sir Topher said quietly. “He was taught no other lessons but those of force. His teachers have…

— Melina Marchetta

“He longed to revenge himself on everyone for his own unseemliness”

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“But soon a better nature seems to come over him, and gentler words fall from his lips. He preaches patience to himself – he…

— James Malcolm Rymer

He has outsoared the shadow of our night; envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous and magnificent, yet so vicious and base?…

— Mary Shelley

He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says,…

— Don DeLillo

That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise…

— Friedrich Nietzsche