Famous quotes containing the words general, labyrinth, comparisons and/or novels:
“The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man’s general expense, as it does upon his giving handsomely where it is proper to give at all. A man, for instance, who should give a servant four shillings, would pass for covetous, while he who gave him a crown, would be reckoned generous; so that the difference of those two opposite characters, turns upon one shilling.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)
“A man in his own secret meditation
Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made
In art or politics....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling “less than” another, comparisons only fan the fires.”
—Dorothy Corkville Briggs (20th century)
“Of all my novels this bright brute is the gayest.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)