Quotes About Childishness

Thoughts of murderous egotism and revenge, and little, vagrant thoughts repulsive in their childishness, pettiness and spite. The little thoughts were perhaps the worst. Little irrelevant vagaries that insulted the dignity of man.

In a word, they are the same folly, the same childishness, the same ill–breeding, and the same ill–nature, which raise all the clamours and uproars both in life and on the stage. The worst of men generally have the words rogue and villain most in their mouths, as the lowest of all wretches are the aptest to cry out low in the pit.

A medida que el mundo llega a ser más profundo bajo la mirada, se advierte que todo lo que ha ejercitado la profundidad del hombre no era sino un juego de niños.

you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.

You say you do not see a king in me, and you may be right, but all I see in you is a bullying child.

It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

Criticized for going too far and calling Conkling a murderer, the New York Tribune denied that it had ever used the word. That said, it wrote, "when a child, in its mad rage, kicks over a table, upsets a lamp, sets the house on fire, and burns people to death, nobody supposes that the child intended murder. Mr. Conkling has been acting like a child in a fit of passion.

TAKING THE LONG VIEW, we are still a young civilization and our culture is a work in progress. In our policies, programs, and plans for caring for people through the end of life, we have been acting childishly: ignoring basic responsibilities, indulging in magical thinking (If we ignore it, maybe it will go away), and fighting without regard to the consequences.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child, and there was a lump in Gaal's throat.

It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child

We get older and more sophisticated and a bit cleverer, but certainly boys - and men - are as childish and basic as we ever were.

Men, in general, are but great great children.

I do find life difficult at times … and I behave childishly too, do foolish things, unworthy … I don't think one can have great imagination and great wisdom. Can one?

Men at any age truly never grow up. All, no matter what importance they may have attained, are still no more than little boys.

Around the women who frequented the yoga studio she felt perpetually diminutive, and that physical feeling augmented the psychological sense of her own childishness that she felt in America.

Populists (and 'national socialists') look at the supposedly secret deals that run the world 'behind the scenes'. Child's play. Except that childishness is sinister in adults.

He shook his head. "Those are the dumbest sons of bitches on earth." "They've become like little children, as you told them to." "Stupid little children," Joshua said.

It is the property of grief to cause the childish side of man to reappear.

Oh, all right, you big baby," she said. "If you really want it. I should have gotten you a rattle and a pacifier, too.

Both my mother's younger sisters, Padmini and Tejaswini, are actresses. I am extremely close to Teju mausi, as I am quite similar to her. We both are adventurous, spontaneous, childish, impulsive, and a bit silly and have our own strange sense of humour.

Men are little boys, she would have said as she lifted her glass. Don't stir or you'll bruise the ice cubes.

Everyone got older but forgot to grow up.

Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, "I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!

Vom Standpunkt des Weisen aus betrachtet, ist die menschliche Natur kindisch. Befindet man sich in einer Menschenmenge und betrachtet diese wie ein/e Zuschauer/in, wird man viele Kinder miteinander spielen sehen. Sie spielen und kämpfen, sie nehmen sich gegenseitig etwas weg, und sie ärgern sich über sehr unwichtige Dinge. (S. 119)