"If you are not yourself, if you surrender your personality, you have nothing left to give the world. You have no pleasure, no use, nothing which will attract and charm me, for by the suppression of your individuality, you lose your distinctive character."

-- Edward Wilmot Blyden

#Character Quotes #Giving Quotes #Personality Quotes

“I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting”
“No wonder he has such nice teeth. They probably pay him in dental floss.”
“The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.”
“Nowadays, you have to sell, like, half a million or a million records just to break even.”
“It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.”
“Fashion isn't just frocks. It's how we do our houses, our gardens, it's what we eat and drink.”

Source : "Grace Coddington: Creative Indeed" by Julie Kavanagh, www.1843magazine.com. Spring 2011.
“You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.”
“It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.”

Source : Flann O'Brien (2007). “The Complete Novels”, Everyman's Library

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