Quotes About Acceptance

His place wasn't to be found geographically...A person's place was made up of people who showed up somewhere regularly enough that you could also show up and count on at least some of them being there. And then you could talk to them and say whatever asinine thing came into your head and even if they ridiculed you for it they did it like friends.

When you really know somebody, you can't hate them.' 'Or maybe it's just that you can't really know them until you stop hating them.

If only such sad people could remember: Everyone is naked. Everyone wants to hide. But life is still sweet. Let it go on.

You also have to attract the notice of superior officers. You have to be liked. You have to fit in with the system. You have to look like what the officers above you think that officers should look like. You have to think in ways that they are comfortable with.

It was a strange, exhilarating feeling to be with people who didn't want anything from you except your happiness, who were glad just to have you around.

Insouciant heroes aren't Brave or relaxed. They're just trying not to embarrass themselves in the moments before they die.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

I can believe anything provided it is incredible.

I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.

Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?

But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

I'm too old to know everything

Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.