#sty

Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#bait #modesty #only #praise #sure

Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards. ↗

— Bradley Chicho

#binds #blunders #friendship #honesty #mushrooms

The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look? ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#affect #badly #british #british press #care

Working with my new coach has helped a lot. I've been a lot more focused and I'm doing all the little things in order to get faster. It's been a total lifestyle change really. ↗

— Tyler Christopher

#change #coach #doing #faster #focused

There are no two countries with the same style of economic mechanism, with the same capitalism. ↗

— Anatoly Chubais

#countries #economic #mechanism #same #style

V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#beings #constant #human #human beings #i

Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty. ↗

— Jeremy Collier

#dispose #fuller #gives #imperfections #learning

My head’ll explode if I continue with this escapism. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income. ↗

— Wilkie Collins

#against #am #flame #hasty #i