Himself Quotes

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

The play is on top of me all the time, and I am constantly thinking about it. Even when I leave the theatre, I'll mumble the lines to myself or think about the way the character walks or holds himself.

Mitt Romney has outdone himself in choosing Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate.

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable.

After I am dead, the boy will ruin himself in twelve months.

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Toward the end of his life, one can sense that he was no longer thinking his way into the minds of others, causing them to speak on his behalf, but that he was now speaking for himself.

Every man, when he comes to be sensible of his natural rights, and to feel his own importance, will consider himself as fully equal to any other person whatever.

A woman's life is not perfect or whole till she has added herself to a husband. Nor is a man's life perfect or whole till he has added to himself a wife.

I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights.

Unlike other peoples the United States found their origin in a deliberate act of corporate self-assertion, and ever since the Revolution every little American has been taught to associate himself personally with this creative act.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

The brave man, indeed, calls himself lord of the land, through his iron, through his blood.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

No one has the responsibility to be out to anyone but himself or herself. I made my choice a million years ago.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

No man thinks there is much ado about nothing when the ado is about himself.

Lincoln had no such person that he could talk with. Often, as a result, he debated with himself, and he would draw up a kind of list of the pros and cons of an argument, and carefully figure them out, and he might test them in public.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Let him that hath no power of patience retire within himself, though even there he will have to put up with himself.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.

In spite of overwhelming evidence, it is most difficult for a citizen of western Europe to bring thoroughly home to himself the truth that the civilisation which surrounds him is a rare exception in the history of the world.

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.