Quotes of: Himself Keyword

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

John Ruskin

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Jacopo Sannazaro

Young or old, a writer sends a book into the world, not himself.

John Updike

It was said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things, and himself of anything.

Dean Inge

The way I fight, it's not me beatin' the man. I make the man whip himself.

Joe Frazier

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Joseph Hall

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

I like presents that a man has spent time on, doing them himself, like a card or anything that is made by hand and from the heart.

Adriana Lima

Acting deals with very delicate emotions. It is not putting up a mask. Each time an actor acts he does not hide; he exposes himself.

Rodney Dangerfield

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

Willa Cather

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Henry Adams

He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

Charles Peguy

Seth Brundle: [to himself] Oh, no. What's happening to me? Am I dying?

The Fly

Ronald James McGorvey: [after castrating himself] I'm gonna be good now.

Little Children

MacReady: Blair's been busy out here all by himself.

The Thing

Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to himself.

Niall Horan

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau

The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca