"I was good at being charming, one of my very few vanities."

-- Jeff Lindsay

#Vanity Quotes #Charming Quotes

“People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.”
“I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.”
“Ben's emphasis was on protecting his expectation of profit with minimum risk.”
“The church is the only institution supernaturally endowed by God. It is the one institution of which Jesus promised that the gates of hell will not prevail against it.”
“Tenderness is the rest of passion.”
“In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion.”
“A great deal of the universe does not need any explanation. Elephants, for instance. Once molecules have learnt to compete and to create other molecules in their own image, elephants, and things resembling elephants, will in due course be found roaming around the countryside ... Some of the things resembling elephants will be men.”
“And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?”

Source : Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”

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