Quotes About Interaction

I can't deal with angry people until after I've had my morning coffee.

Martinsson was at the other side of the table, watching him. 'He knows exactly what's going on inside my head at the moment,' Wallander thought, 'and he agrees with me, whether I speak up now or hold my tongue.

A man can suffocate on courtesy.

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits, and summons the savage there to surrender.

We rarely meet a man who can tell us any news which he has not read in a newspaper, or been told by his neighbor; and, for the most part, the only difference between us and our fellow is, that he has seen the newspaper, or been out to tea, and we have not.

We had been told in Bangor of a man who lived alone, a sort of hermit, at that dam [on the Allegash], to take care of it, who spent his time tossing a bullet from one hand to the other, for want of employment. This sort of tit-for-tat intercourse between his two hands, bandying to and fro a leaden subject, seems to have been his symbol for society.

O convívio social, geralmente, é banal demais

Wir sind meistens einsamer, wenn wir uns unter Menschen begeben, als wenn wir in unseren Zimmern bleiben.

We are more anxious to speak than to be heard

Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man—a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.

In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.

She had always observed that she got on better with clever women than silly ones like herself; the silly ones could never understand her wisdom; whereas the clever ones - the really clever ones - always understood her silliness.

Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there!

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing the more tiresome parts of one's own personality.

Catherine had not understood all that she said; her attention was given to enjoying Marian's ease of manner and flow of ideas.

Well, said Winterbourne, when you deal with natives you must go by the custom of the place. Flirting is a purely American custom; it doesn't exist here. So when you show yourself in public with Mr. Giovanelli, and without your mother— Gracious!

Mrs. Gotch a wide berth—I couldn't talk to them.  I could

The young girl inspected her flounces and smoothed her ribbons again; and Winterbourne presently risked an observation upon the beauty of the view. He was ceasing to be embarrassed, for he had begun to perceive that she was not in the least embarrassed herself.

But will they make themselves agreeable to me? That's what I like people to do. I don't hesitate to say so, because I always appreciate it.