#opinio

Nothing is more deceitful," said Darcy, "than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. ↗

— Jane Austen

#deceit #humility #opinions

Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#bad-reviews #boring #complain #literary-criticism #lotr

The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. ↗

— William Blake

#thought #water

I don't care what you think unless it is about me. ↗

— Kurt Cobain

#narcissism #opinion #opinions

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#quote #opinions

Every time you mention some guy that's strictly a bastard— very mean, or very conceited and all— and when you mention it to the girl, she'll tell you he has an inferiority complex. Maybe he has, but that still doesn't keep him from being a bastard, in my opinion. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#opinions

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#belief #call #death #does #embrace

The greatest thing to be achieved in advertising, in my opinion, is believability, and nothing is more believable than the product itself. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#advertising #believable #greatest #greatest thing #in my opinion

The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#in my opinion #left #opinion #out #personal

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge. ↗

— George W. Bush

#book #country #criticize #desire #emerge