"For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it Ã la mode and stylishly."

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Source : Anthony Hope (2011). “The Prisoner of Zenda”, p.94, House of Stratus

Anthony Hope

#Men Quotes #Needs Quotes #Knaves Quotes

“If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.”
“Sarcasm is not the rapier of wit its wielders seem to believe it to be, but merely a club: it may, by dint of brute force, occasionally raise bruises, but it never cuts or pierces.”
“You are a little soul carrying about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say.”
“What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2012). “My Career Goes Bung”, p.28, Allen & Unwin
“I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.”
“I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.”
“Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.”
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.”

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