The public wishes itself to be managed like a woman; one must say nothing to it except what it likes to hear.

Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Topics: Women Quotes

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in...

To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in...

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with...

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with...

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

Death is Nature's expert advice to get plenty of Life.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates...

Every reader, if he has a strong mind, reads himself into the book, and amalgamates...

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,...

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth,...

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

National literature no longer means very much, the age of world literature is due.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh...

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh...