top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon."
Standard
Customized
More
"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Why should I go into details, we have nothing that is not perishable except what our hearts and our intellects endows us with."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Nothing proves that we are more than nothing."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
Books
"Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's."
Creation
"And Englishmen like posing as gods."
Society
"I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson."
Independence
"It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted."
History
"Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us go. But unworthiness stimulates woman. It brings out her deeper nature, for good or for evil."
Psychology
"Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna."
Beauty
"A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself."
Information
"We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next."
Curiosity
"Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind."
Civilization
bottom of page