Happiness Quote by Thomas Love Peacock

“A clever man would naturally have other interests, an ambitious man other hopes. . . . I thought that a fool would worship, and…

— Emmuska Orczy

“Here, perhaps, is the only man in the world who, were you to leave him alone and without money on the square of some…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He had glimpsed a glorious ideal, had struggled toward it and seized it and come to understand it, and was disappointed. One could sympathize.”

— John Gardner

“Be what it may, I will always esteem and adore the divine genius of this Gentleman, taking from him what I understand with humility…

— Lope de Vega

“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner of our…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It is indeed a mortifying reflection to those who are actuated by the love of fame, so justly denominated the last infirmity of noble…

— David Hume

“[The Utopians] marvel that any mortal can take pleasure in the weak sparkle of a little gem or bright pebble, when he has a…

— Sir Thomas More

“Dandies, who – as you know - scorn all emotions as being beneath them, and do not believe, like that simpleton Goethe, that astonishment…

— Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

“When evening comes, I return to my home, and I go into my study; and on the thresh-hold, I take off my everyday clothes,…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“This day I shalt have to do with an idle curious man, with an unthankful man, a railer, a crafty, false, or an envious…

— Marcus Aurelius

“What is madness but nobility of the soul at odds with circumstance.”

— Theodore Roethke