Quotes with self-defeating

Quotes 681 till 682 of 682.

• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  Edgar Allan Poe
  American poet, writer and critic (1809 - 1849)
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• True happiness ... is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy cause.

  Helen Keller
  American writer (1880 - 1968)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-gratification
• friendship
• happiness
• frequent
• occasion
• gossamer

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