Themselves Quotes

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Writers themselves don’t analyze what they do; to analyze would be to look down while crossing a canyon on a tightrope.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent.

I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to go about it themselves – they can’t depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what’s going on all over the world.

Everybody doesn’t want to have to be a computer scientist to protect themselves. Most people have no desire to do that.

Matinee customers must enter the theatre in a more matter-of-fact frame of mind, hanging on tightly before they let themselves go.