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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

People, Man, Respect

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Victor Hugo, French Author

People, Kings

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

People, Superiority

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Goodness

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

People, Trouble, Want

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

People, Nothing

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

People, Faults

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

People, Pleasure, Promises

"I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Books, Gifts

"If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people."

Dean Koontz, American Author

People, Entertainment, Struggle, Support

Explore more quotes by David Allan Coe

"All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality."

Equality, Men

"Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own."

Children, Hate

"I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile."

Hair, Smile

"Everybody started saying, well, this cat's not as dumb as people think he is."

People, Dumb, Saying

"If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination."

Class,

"Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away."

Freedom,

"Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life."

Life, Mountains

"It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time."

Beauty, Time, Building, Will

"I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about."

Music, Songs