Generosity Quote by Saul Bellow

He refused categorically all ideas of fidelity or serious commitments. He explained that they were arbitrary and sterile. From anyone else such views would…

— Francoise Sagan

Though He did what he could to help the multitudes, He had to devote Himself primarily to a few men, rather than the masses,…

— Robert Emerson Coleman

He was one of those people things came easily to, but he did little to demonstrate that he deserved to be gifted.

— John Irving

“the idea presented itself definitely to his mind that it was in his power to exchange the dreary, artificial, idle, and individualistic life he…

— Leo Tolstoy

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of…

— Henry Miller

Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish…

— Charles Dickens

He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that…

— Neal Stephenson

Early on, he'd learned to enjoy simple things, things that couldn't be bought, and he had a hard time understanding people who felt otherwise.

— Nicholas Sparks

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way…

— R. Scott Bakker

... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.

— Charles Dickens

He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world…

— Willa Sibert Cather

He was not only, I soon discovered, a water drinker, but a strict vegetarian, to which, perhaps, he owed a great deal of the…

— Charles Kingsley