"Men are so conceited they’ll believe anything that flatters them."
Margaret Mitchell
"The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness."
Edwin Booth
"We form our impression not globally, by placing ourselves in the broadest possible context, but locally, by comparing ourselves to people in the same boat as ourselves."
Malcolm Gladwell
"Washington once advised his adopted grandson that where there is no occasion for expressing an opinion, it is best to be silent. For there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
Ron Chernow
"Someday I'll understand more of these things. At the moment I just have to think them through. Not everything you want to know is explained properly on Google."
Meg Rosoff
"The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a court of law. It is a forum of legal fad and fashion."
Anonymous
"Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter."
Jaeda DeWalt
"It has to be admitted that starving nations never seem to be quite so starving that they cannot afford to have far more expensive armaments than anybody else."
T.H. White
"Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock."
Sigmund Freud
"Wit is far more often a shield than a lance."
Anonymous
"In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat."
David Hewson
"It’s good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan.”“You only say that because you have no shame."
Leigh Bardugo
"Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do."
Sidney Sheldon
"Simplicity is one complication that I can live without."
Anthony T. Hincks
"First rule of Angel Club, you do not talk about Angel Club."
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