Blunders Quote by Stendhal Download Open image ““An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.”” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Blunders Insane Insane Self Self consciousness Thousands Blunders
“As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness… — Hermann Bahr Copy Share Image
“A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...” — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
“He was one of those susceptible, highly-strung persons who cannot bear to have made a blunder which, though they do not admit it to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, it's foolproof.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
“He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
“Was he really insane? At a time when the world is upside down and it's thought insane to ask why you're being murdered, it… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“A hint of sanity and heaps of insanity lead to success. I’m extremely insane.” — Marion Bekoe Copy Share Image
“another of their acquaintances finds himself mesmerised by the way that he 'always had something of ... rivetting stupidity to say on any subject'.” — Craig Brown Copy Share Image
“Foolish and irrelevant ideas strayed about his mind, as they always do in a time of tedious waiting.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Somewhere deep inside his mind, somewhere beyond the event horizon of rationality, the sheer pressure of insanity had hammered his madness into something harder… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“The problem with Insanity was how incredibly sane it felt. He bit his tongue and said nothing to the smirking ghost of his father.” — Matthew Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
“He wondered if he’d completely lost his mind, but then figured that people who’d gone insane never wondered if they’d gone insane.” — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or anger, without bread or money. If you approach them, they are… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
If only,’ Shiroyama dreams, ‘human beings were not masks behind masks behind masks. If only this world was a clean board of lines and… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
Your printers have made but one blunder,Correct it instanter, and then for the thunder!We'll see in a jiffy if this Mr S[pencer]Has the ghost… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature proceeds by blunders; that is its way. It is also ours. So if we have blundered by regarding consciousness as a blunder, why… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
George theThird Ought never to have occurred. One can only wonder At so grotesque a blunder. — E. C. Bentley Copy Share Image
I take editing seriously. It's a joy to edit. I always hand a manuscript to several editors and can't wait to get back their… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
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