Quotes with himself

Quotes 201 till 220 of 795.

  • Friedrich von Schlegel Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • Alexis Carrel Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.
    Alexis Carrel
    French surgeon, anatomist and biologist (1873 - 1944)
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  • Leo Tolstoy Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Charles Buxton Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.
    Charles Buxton
    British writer (1823 - 1871)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Failure - The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Carlo Collodi Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.
    Pinocchio
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Don Marquis Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Sir Philip Sidney Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.
    Sir Philip Sidney
    British Author, Courtier (1554 - 1586)
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  • Janet Malcolm Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
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  • Helen Rowland Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe For a man to achieve all that is demanded of him he must regard himself as greater than he is.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Henry David Thoreau For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson For who is pleased with himself.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camille Paglia Freud says, Man fears that his strength will be taken from him by woman, dreads becoming infected with her femininity and then proving himself a weakling. Masculinity must fight off effeminacy day by day. Woman and nature stand ever ready to reduce the male to boy and infant.
    Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Marguerite Duras Frigidity is desire imagined by a woman who doesn't desire the man offering himself to her. It's the desire of a woman for a man who hasn't yet come to her, whom she doesn't yet know. She's faithful to this stranger even before she belongs to him. Frigidity is the non-desire for whatever is not him.
    Marguerite Duras
    French author and filmmaker (1914 - 1996)
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  • Alfred de Vigny From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Ovid Gifts, believe me, captivate both men and Gods, Jupiter himself was won over and appeased by gifts.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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