Accounts Quote by Robert Sheckley

An honest man often becomes characterless getting a position of power.

— Mak_786

The petty man is eager to make boasts, yet desires that others should believe in him. He enthusiastically engages in deception, yet wants others…

— Anonymous

“There is a time in life when a man with a little acting ability is able to deceive even himself.”

— Graham Greene

“What do you believe reveals more about a man’s character, his arrogance or his attempt to disguise it?”

— Aaron B. Powell

Despite his [Artie Shaw's] affectations of reclusiveness, he never tired of talking about himself, as countless long interviews reveal. I do not recall an…

— Gene Lees

“Rampton suggested that one could derive a “fair picture of a man’s true attitudes and motives from what he says and from the kind…

— Deborah E. Lipstadt

There are people who can write their memoirs with a reasonable amount of honesty, and there are people who simply cannot take themselves seriously…

— Raymond Chandler

Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is fit for a man to know his own abilities and weaknesses, and not think himself obliged to imitate all that he thinks…

— Robert Boyle

“The inside story on a man was that if he wanted to be successful, he must become a rugged individualist, but then should make…

— Bob Dylan

“A man’s work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, and you can only…

— W. Somerset Maugham

How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

— Etty Hillesum