"English life, while very pleasant, is rather bland. I expected kindness and gentility and I found it, but there is such a thing as too much couth."

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Source : 1971 In the Observer, 24 Sep.

S. J. Perelman

#Kindness Quotes #Too Much Quotes #Found Quotes

“I don't presume to think I'm great at anything.”
“I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.”
“Not all forms of abuse leave bruises.”
“Much of life becomes background, but it is the province of art to throw buckets of light into the shadows and make life new again.”
“In questioning initially whether I am a great investor, I open the door to question whether other similarly esteemed public icons like Bill Miller are as well. It seems, perhaps, that the longer and longer you keep at it in this business the more and more time you have to expose your Achilles heel - wherever and whatever that might be.”
“Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador lived through times of cruel and ruthless capitalism where the workers, the masses of the population, saw themselves living in a precarious state of employment and subsistence conditions. The impact of this reality took hold and impacted the evolution of the social situation of those countries and even though that produced movements that were not exactly political movements but social movements.”
“I'm really thrilled to kind of be a role models for my daughters, and showing them the passion about what I do, and I get to go to work and I love to go to work. That's what I saw my mom doing my whole life.”
“Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.”

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