Quotes About Individuality

That's what makes you different from the rest of us, Quentin. You actually still believe in magic.

Fine. Better than most. But sadly for you there are many heads like it. One hundred. One thousand maybe.

They were joined by Julia, who kept her sunglasses on and ate only marmite, straight from the jar, which if anything seemed like further proof of her declining humanity.

The mistake people make," Bingle said, "is thinking that there are different styles.

He did not want to be original; he made superhuman efforts to be like everybody else: but there is no escaping one's destiny.

Tutte le famiglie felici si assomigliano fra loro, ogni famiglia infelice è infelice a suo modo.

Women are so perverse. Look how they won't wear black when nothing suits them so well!

She thought that most women make a great mistake in allowing dress to be the master instead of the servant of their good looks; many women were, she considered, entirely crushed and made insignificant by the beauty of their clothes.

Feminism is a program for making different beings -- men and women -- turn out alike, and ... it must do a good deal of chopping to fit the real world into its ideal.

You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself.

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.

Our native susceptibilities and acquired tastes determine which of the many qualities in an object shall most impress us, and be most clearly recalled. One man remembers the combustible properties of a substance, which to another is memorable for its polarising property; to one man a stream is so much water-power, to another a rendezvous for lovers.

Whatever you believe to be true and false, that proclaim to be true and false; whatever you think admirable and beautiful, that should be your model, even if all your friends and all the critics storm at you as a crotchet-monger and an eccentric.

Originality is independence, not rebellion; it is sincerity, not antagonism.

The opinion of the majority is not lightly to be rejected; but neither is it to be carelessly echoed.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.

Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing—turn out your toes when you walk—and remember who you are!

"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see.""I don't see," said the Caterpillar.

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.

have i gone mad? im afraid so, but let me tell you something, the best people usualy are.

I'm not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours.

We are each born into a situation—a particular body (its race, sex, health...), a set of ancestors, a community, a nation—and born into the stories told of each of these.

What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself.