Quote by Reginald Hill

“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“It seems to me now almost incredibly wonderful that, with that swift fate hanging over us, men could go about their petty concerns as…

— H.G. Wells

“How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?”

— Milan Kundera

“Was it a weakness of man that made him want to ignore the darker side of his fellow human beings?”

— Todd Strasser

“And he cares nothing for their praise—men who can’t even meet their own standards.”

— Marcus Aurelius

“felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.”

— Emily Brontë

“His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.”

— C.S. Forester

“I despised him as one fit only for amusement, a man with whom I associated for that sole purpose.”

— Osamu Dazai

“I am not a man who enjoys such insights into his own character.”

— Stephen Baxter

“...he was by no means expansive, and talked little indeed, but not from shyness or a sullen unsociability; quite the contrary, from something different,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had spent a lot of time thinking about himself, and had come to the conclusion that he was definitely not self-absorbed.”

— Scott Meyer

“He studied diligently, unsparingly, and for that they respected him, but no one liked him”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky