Michel de Montaigne Quotes

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.

A regard for reputation and the judgment of the world may sometimes be felt where conscience is dormant.

Let’s face it. Everybody considers you to be a loser.

Our credibility had gotten so bad we couldn't even believe our own leaks.

People see us as no better than we are.

In the coffee shops of the Middle East, where only conspiracies are believed and the simple truth is considered naivete or duplicity, America’s motives are invariably assumed to be malicious.

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. Fame and censure with a tether / By fate are always linked together.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey than others, and detected faults and follies which escape vulgar observation.

Hillary Clinton rubs people the wrong way, for valid reasons.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Just because we don't understand why they'd cover up something doesn't mean they aren't," Bobby said, and we both turned to look at him. "Now you just sound paranoid," I said. "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you," Bobby said with an expression so serious that I couldn't help but laugh.

And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.

It is a sin to be a mocker.

I don't trust photographers. I'm now a relaxed, contented 60 year-old, but look at my pictures and you see a crazy, bug-eyed serial killer.

People do not relate to nor do they like Hillary Clinton.

Human beings make a strange fauna and flora. From a distance they appear negligible; close up they are apt to appear ugly and malicious. More than anything they need to be surrounded with sufficient space―space even more than time.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Seedy wasn't a fair description for the place, because seeds imply eventual regrowth and renewal.

Sometimes bad is bad.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race.