"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."

Man, Men, Childhood, Necessity, Neglect

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Man,

"Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be expected, of which the largest part is and always has been made up of men skilled in farming."

Arthur Capper, American Politician

Man, Men, War, Europe, States

"Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."

Voltaire, French Writer

Man, Men, Thought, Thoughts, Authority

"Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man."

Charles Lyell, British Lawyer

Man, Proof

"Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

Man, Men, America, Monument, President

"Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out."

Alan Moore, British Writer

Man, Men, People, Energy

"Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them."

Augustus Hare, English Writer

Man, Men, Act

"Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Man, Voice

"The strong man is strongest when alone."

Friedrich Schiller, German Dramatist

Man,

"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."

John Morley, British Statesman

Man,

Explore more quotes by F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Breathing dreams like air."

Inspirational

"She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."

Grief

"Each night when she prepared for bed she smeared her face with some new unguent which she hoped illogically would give back the glow and freshness to her vanishing beauty."

Vanity

"First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."

Alcohol

"Probably more than any concrete vice or failing Amory despised his own personality - he loathed knowing that to-morrow and the thousand days after he would sell pompously at a compliment and sulk at an ill word like a third-rate musician or a first-class actor."

Psychology

"I found something! Courage--just that, courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."

Courage

"By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish."

Gender

"She went out socially with him, but without enthusiasm, devoured already by that eternal inertia which comes to live with each of us one day and stays with us to the end."

Apathy

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

Intelligence

"Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious."

Sacrifice