"True modesty is a discerning grace And only blushes in the proper place; But counterfeit is blind, and skulks through fear, Where 'tis a shame to be asham'd t' appear: Humility the parent of the first, The last by vanity produc'd and nurs'd."

“the wide discrepancy between reason and feeling may be unreal; it is not improbable that intellect is a high form of feeling - a specialized, intensive feeling about intuitions.”

“Flattery is a challenge. The proper turning away from it, undercutting, diminishing it without offense or vehemence, is a social grace sweeter even than the swift determination to keep ahead in the race of hospitality.”

“The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.”

“Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.”

“the hand will often reveal more than the countenance ...”

Source : Anna Katharine Green (2016). “THE DETECTIVE EBENEZER GRYCE MYSTERIES – Complete Collection: 11 Mystery Novels in One Volume: New York Murder-Mysteries: The Leavenworth Case, A Strange Disappearance, The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow, Hand and Ring, That Affair Next Door, Lost Man’s Lane, The Circular Study, One of My Sons…”, p.29, e-artnow

“Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.”

Source : Hans Joachim Morgenthau, Kenneth W. Thompson (1977). “A Tribute to Hans Morgenthau: truth and tragedy : with an intellectual autobiography by Hans J. Morgenthau”, New Republic Books

“You drive me crazy!" "You were always crazy. I just highlight it.”

“I don't think just funny is enough on Broadway.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.