"Oh, believe me. The greatest egos are those which are too egotistical to show just how egotistical they are."

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Source : William Inge (1979). “4 plays”

William Inge

#Believe Quotes #Ego Quotes #Shows Quotes

“I'm afraid I tend to be thinking about things and not paying sufficient attention to one's posture, deportment and general cast of face.”
“Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.”
“For me, intuitive thinking means associative thinking; intuition causes us to introduce narrative or figurative elements into a poem before we're able to explain why those elements belong.”
“You can't see the world through a mirror.”

Source : Song: Too Much To Ask, Album: Let Go, 2002
“Some people seem to see compassion as being mushy.”
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proudâ€”crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”
“O let us still the secret joy partake, To follow virtue even for virtue's sake.”
“Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long as the King of France treats me gently he will find me as gentle and tractable as he can desire; but if he be rough, I shall take the trouble to be just as troublesome and offensive to him as I can.”

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