"Whether the gentleman is capable or not, he is loved all the same; conversely the petty man is loathed all the same."

-- Xunzi

#Men Quotes #Gentleman Quotes #Capable Quotes

“The artist should paint not only what he sees before him, but also what he sees within him. If, however, he sees nothing within him, then he should also refrain from painting that which he sees before him. Otherwise, his pictures will be like those folding screens behind which one expects to find only the sick or the dead.”
“No, I never thought of it in those terms. I used to go into agents' offices and they'd have pictures of these handsome movie men and I knew I'd never be up there. I'm a journeyman actor. I didn't think about stardom.”
“Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest.”
“He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.”
“He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.”
“American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.”
“It was becoming clearer and clearer that if I wanted to come to the end of my life and not say, â€œIâ€™ve wasted it!â€ then I would need to press all the way in, and all the way up, to the ultimate purpose of God and join him in it. If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be Godâ€™s passion.”
“Love. Of course, love. Flames for a year, ashes for thirty.”

Source : Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa (1960). “The Leopard”, Pantheon Books

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