#thing

Work is important to me. I want to do things for principle, not just for the sake of doing them. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#i #important #just #me #principle

It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#find #i #less #lust #many

It is work, work that one delights in, that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#delights #does #earlier #earned #easy

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#college #deal #goes #good #good deal

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#civility #costs #everything #nothing

In short I will part with anything for you but you. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#i #part #short #will #you

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#bring #double #general #likely #loss

Prudent people are very happy; 'tis an exceeding fine thing, that's certain, but I was born without it, and shall retain to my day of Death the Humour of saying what I think. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#certain #day #death #exceeding #fine

My acting range has always been something between the two extremes of 'raises left eyebrow' and 'raises right eyebrow.' ↗

— Roger Moore

#always #been #between #extremes #eyebrow

Not many of us are willing to give up everything we have. ↗

— Roger Moore

#give #many #up #us #willing