#Humannature Quotes

“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it.”

“I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don’t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty.”

“The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it.”

“Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.”

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

“He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression.”

“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”

“Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.”

“There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.”

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

“The only real people are the people who never existed.”

“Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain.”

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”

“It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword”

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.”

“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”

“Men become old, but they never become good.”

“It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.”

“What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.”

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

“There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”

“The people I am most afraid of are those who are the most afraid.”

“You know how cunningly mankind is planned:We have one loving and one hating hand.The loving's made to hold each other like,While with the hating other hand we strike.”

“More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.”

“Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.”

“It is personalities not principles that move the age.”

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

“The final mystery is oneself.”

“We disparage reason.But all the time it's what we're most concerned with.There's will as motor and there's will as brakes.Reason is, I suppose, the steering gear.”

“Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.”

“Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand.”

“Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.”

“It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing”

“If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

“It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless.”

“Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.”

“You know what a woman's curiosity is.”

“Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share.”