Quotes About Attitude

I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath.

California is a small woman saying, 'Fuck me.' New York is a large man saying, 'Fuck you!

Sore loser? You bet your fuckin' ass! What on earth is wrong with being a sore loser? It shows you cared about whatever the contest was in the first place. Fuck losing graciously-that's for chumps. And losers, by the way.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.

There's a nice campaign slogan for somebody: 'The Public Sucks. F*ck Hope.

The West Coast experience is soft and peripheral, New York is hard and concentrated. California is a small woman saying, "Fuck me." New York is a large man saying, "Fuck you!

People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.

One gets a bad habit of being unhappy.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I should be glad to see a good change in anybody, Mr. Godfrey.' she answered, with the slightest discernible difference of tone, 'but it 'ud be better if no change was wanted.

We cannot help the way in which people speak of us . . .

Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never hear them without their changing my whole attitude of mind for a time, and if the effect would last, I might be capable of heroisms.

for the human mind in that grassy corner had not the proverbial tendency to admire the unknown, holding rather that it was likely to be against the poor man, and that suspicion was the only wise attitude with regard to it.

Tom's mind was set to the expectation of the worst that could happen—not death, but disgrace.

she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that men would be so, and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks.

But selfish people always think their own discomfort of more importance than anything else in the world: I see enough of that every day.

manners must be very marked indeed before they cease to be interpreted by preconceptions either confident or distrustful

I rather like a haughty manner. I cannot endure a rattling young man.

People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.

just as when a youthful nobleman steals jewellery we call the act kleptomania, speak of it with a philosophical smile, and never think of his being sent to the house of correction as if he were a ragged boy who had stolen turnips. In