Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
Quote by Doris Lessing
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Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
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Doris Lessing Quotes
- It's lovely to have money to give away - that's the bonus of winning the Nobel.
- There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
- Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way.
- We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
- September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.
- I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
- What society doesn't realize is that in the past, ordinary people respected learning. They respected books, and they don't now, or not very much. That whole respect for serious literature and learning has disappeared.
Best Quotes
- I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
- You feel sometimes when you hear analysts and knowledgeable people talking about Iran that they fear so much about the survival of the regime, because deep down it's not a legitimate regime, it doesn't represent the will of the people, it's kind of morphed into kind of a military theocracy.
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
- Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- We are special because we've been united not by a common race or ethnicity. We're bound together by common values. That family is the most important institution in society. That almighty God is the source of all we have.
- I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
- When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.
- There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
- Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.