Being Quote by Tom Peters

“Added to the natural good qualities of Mr. Covey, he was a professor of religion—a pious soul—a member and a class-leader in the Methodist…

— Frederick Douglass

The character of covetousness, is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in…

— Alexander Pope

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past.…

— James Joyce

“Stephen watched the three glasses being raised from the counter as his father and his two cronies drank to the memory of their past.…

— James Joyce

“It was quite unlike their friendly discourse of some days before, and presently Stephen grew sadly bored: lies or half-lies, he reflected, had a…

— Patrick O'Brian

He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique…

— Anonymous

He is the very Janus of poets; he wears almost everywhere two faces; and you have scarce begun to admire the one, ere you…

— John Dryden

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion,…

— John Burnside

He was the kind of man who was not ashamed to show affection. I guess that's what I hated about him.

— Jack Handey

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

His courtesy was somewhat extravagant. He would write and thank people who wrote to thank him for wedding presents and when he encountered anyone…

— Evelyn Waugh

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