self-awareness Quotes

How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.

A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment.

In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels.