self-awareness Quotes

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.