Quotes About Human nature

A grey man," she said. "Neither white nor black, but partaking of both. Is that what you are, Ser Davos?" "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." "If half of an onion is black with rot, it is a rotten onion. A man is good, or he is evil.

Archmaester Rigney once wrote that history is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again, he said.

Men are beasts, selfish and brutal. However gentle the words, there are always darker motives underneath.

It doesn't matter what we want, once we get it, then we want something else." - Lord Baelish

Our occasional madness is less wonderful than our occasional sanity.

The uncivilized behavior of some human beings in a zoo has to be seen to be believed.

Brutes leave ingratitude to man.

If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.

All men are born truthful, and die liars.

The first man is of the earth, earthy.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.

Two things control man's nature: instinct and experience.

Inconsistency is the only thing in which men are consistent.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

Who ever is adequate? We all create situations which others can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

The force of selfishness is as inevitable and as calculable as the force of gravitation.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy.

Vice is as much a part of human nature as folly, and pornography may be as necessary to vent vice as satire is to vent folly.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.