Quotes About Individuality

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.

I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.

I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.

It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul.

It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself

It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

People think they know the mystery of living in your skin. They don't. There's no one knows except the person who carts it around her own self.

By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.

A man without a mustache is a man without a soul.

All people are the same; only their habits differ.