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Quotes about People
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“I am a deeply superficial person.”
“The people are to be taken in small doses.”
“In each of us there is a little of all of us.”
“Unhurt people are not much good in the world.”
“I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.”
“All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.”
“That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.”
“No matter where or what, there are makers, takers, and fakers.”
“I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me.”
“The people long eagerly for just two things. Bread and circuses.”
“Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.”
“I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.”
“Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.”
“The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.”
“Waldo is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.”
“We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.”
“The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.”
“We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.”
“The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.”
“When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.”
“Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close.”
“A person well satisfied with themselves is seldom satisfied with others, and others, rarely are with them.”
“There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us, and others who please us in spite of their faults.”
“But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.”
“People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser, and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.”
“Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.”
“There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, ''There you are'' and those who say, ''Here I am''”
“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”
“What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.”
“There are three kinds of people; those that make things happen, those that watch things happen and those who don't know what's happening.”