Quotes about People, page 20

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Quote by Jane Austen about people

There are people, the more you do for them, the less they do for themselves.

Quote by Jane Austen about people

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

Quote by Jane Austen about people

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

Quote by Jane Austen about people

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Quote by Jane Austen about people

As I was walking I passed a person with his head back and a handkerchief pressed against his nose, trying to staunch the blood. He had a nosebleed.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

Everybody has a heart. Except some people.

Quote by Bette Davis about people

I didn't want to go to places that have been written about so many times by people so much more qualified than I, like James Jones and Norman Mailer who lived through it. I was always searching for my own theater of war.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

I hope it will appeal to people who haven't read the other books or people who thought they wouldn't be interested in them.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

It's good to have it over with. I worked on it a long time, and I didn't know what people were going to think of it. Would people like it? Would they buy it? So far it's been doing pretty well.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

My agent lived in New York for over twenty years and like most people who are adopted New Yorkers she's very passionate about the city. Also, she has a particular interest in this period, especially of golden age Hollywood films.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

People keep saying, "Oh, you're getting all these great reviews, that must make you really happy". I guess it does, but mostly it's just a relief.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

The 'Talk of the Town' was really that in the 1940s: it was all about New York, it was only about New York, and it was about people.

Quote by Michael Chabon about people

Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them.

Quote by Agatha Christie about people

People often become actresses because of something they dislike about themselves: They pretend they are someone else.

Quote by Bette Davis about people

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Quote by Bette Davis about people

I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.

Quote by Agatha Christie about people

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Quote by Agatha Christie about people

The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.

Quote by Agatha Christie about people

Very few of us are what we seem.

Quote by Agatha Christie about people