attitude Quotes

I actually think that I'm a rather optimistic and happy person; it's just that I'm not a very positive person, if you see the difference.

I'm not looking for sympathy at all.

Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

The world perishes not from bandits and fires, but from hatred, hostility, and all these petty squabbles.