"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

Man, Men, Women, Thought, Anecdotes

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography."

Exlpore more Man quotes

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Man, Men, Truth, May, Order

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

George Eliot, British Author

Man, May, Opposition, Persecution

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Skill

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Man, Men, History, Necessity

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman

Man, Passion

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

Henry Miller, American Author

Man, Mind, Order, Pain

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

Lyndon B. Johnson, American President

Man, Men, Injustice, Vote

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Will Rogers, American Actor

Man, Nothing

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

Man, Men, Goodness

Explore more quotes by Anita Brookner

"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

Home

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

Friendship

"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

Love

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

Religion

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."

Business

"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

Attention

"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."

Creativity

12

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Man quotes

"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."

"A little skill in antiquity inclines a man to Popery."

"In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary."

"A man in passion rides a horse that runs away with him."

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."

"The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men."

"There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

"The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything."

"Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental."

Explore more quotes by Anita Brookner

"It will be a pity if women in the more conventional mould are to be phased out, for there will never be anyone to go home to."

"Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy."

"You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't."

"Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society."

"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."

"Writing novels preserves you in a state of innocence - a lot passes you by - simply because your attention is otherwise diverted."

"You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish."

"Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long."

"No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does."

"Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."