It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness doe

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. – W. Somerset Maugham

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment. – Doug Larson

Category:
Happiness

Weve got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because thats easier. Its much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it. – Emma Thompson

Category:
Happiness

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions – the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Category:
Happiness

Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society. – Henry St. John

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions. – Edward R. Murrow

Category:
Business

Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. – Solon

Category:
Trust

October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful. – Thomas Merton

Category:
Time

It is the rooted instinct in men to admire what is better and more beautiful than themselves. – James Russell Lowell

Category:
Instinct