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“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility.”
Source: Jane Austen: Bicentenary Essays
“Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast.”
Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1
“Nothing is more deceptive or more dangerous than the pretence of a desire to simplify government. The simplest governments are despotisms; the next simplest, limited monarchies; but all republics, all governments of law, must impose numerous limitations and qualifications of authority, and give many positive and many qualified rights.”
Source: The beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: selected and arranged, with a critical essay on his genius and writings
“Nothing is more deflating to morale than to have a poor outcome pinned on someone who doesn't deserve it. It lacks integrity and overvalues the outcome at the expense of the people as well as the process.”
Source: The Mentor Leader: Secrets to Building People and Teams That Win Consistently
“Nothing is more democratic, less judgmental, than water. Water doesn't care whether flesh is withered or fresh; it caresses aged flesh and firm flesh with equal love.”
Source: An Accidental Autobiography
“Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.”
“Nothing is more desirable than that which is being withheld.”
Source: Topics of Conversation
“Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.”
“Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies”
“Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.”
Source: Carnets: 1935-1942
“Nothing is more despicable than the old age of a passionate man. When the vigour of youth fails him, and his amusements pall with frequent repetition, his occasional rage sinks by decay of strength into peevishness; that peevishness, for want of novelty and variety, becomes habitual; the world falls off from around him, and he is left, as Homer expresses it, to devour his own heart in solitude and contempt.”
“Nothing is more destined to create deep-seated anxieties in people than the false assumption that life should be free from anxieties.”
“Nothing is more destructive of human dignity than a rule which imposes a mute and blind obedience.”
“Nothing is more destructive of individual character than for a man to lose all faith in his own abilities for the prosecution of his work.”
“Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.”
Source: The World As I See It
“Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.”
“Nothing is more destructive than the gap between people's perceptions of their own day-to-day economic well-being and what politicians and statisticians are telling them about the economy”
“Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.”
“Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of costly fuel and excellent fertilizer, but also the complete destruction of physical historical data. On the other hand, the custom of embalming and mummification is most praiseworthy and highly to be recommended.”
“Nothing is more devastating to a community than out-of-control crime.”
“Nothing is more difficult and nothing requires more character than to find oneself in open opposition to ones time (and those one loves) and to say loudly: No!”
“Nothing is more difficult than competing with a myth”
Source: I Give You My Word
“Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage. Thus, march by an indirect route and divert the enemy by enticing him with a bait. So doing, you may set out after he does and arrive before him. One able to do this understands the strategy of the direct and the indirect.”
Source: The Art of War
“Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuver. What is difficult about maneuver is to make the devious route the most direct and to turn misfortune to advantage.”
“Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.”
“Nothing is more difficult than to make a profit.”
“Nothing is more difficult than to understand the dead, I've found; but nothing is more dangerous than to ignore them.”
Source: The Blind Assassin: A Novel
“Nothing is more difficult than trying to correct history.”
“Nothing is more difficult to accomplish than changing outward actions without changing inward feelings.”
Source: Motivated to Succeed: Inspirational Selections from John C. Maxwell
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.”
“Nothing is more diminishing than trying to control success or hold on to things.”
“Nothing is more disappointing than the long-awaited fulfillment of a wish: for the reality itself is too concrete and brings with it a certain calm. The exaltation on which one was living disappears, leaving in its place a great void in which things only appear as they are, nothing more.”
Source: Men in Prison
“Nothing is more disgraceful than insincerity.”
Source: Three Books of Offices; Or, Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate. Literally Translated, with Notes, Designed to Exhibit a Comparative View of the Opinions of Cicero, and Those of Modern Moralists and Ethical Philosophers
“Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.”
“Nothing is more disgusting than the crowing about liberty by slaves, as most men are, and the flippant mistaking for freedom of some paper preamble like a Declaration of Independence, or the statute right to vote, by those who have never dared to think or to act.”
Source: The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Nothing is more disgusting than the majority: because it consists of a few powerful predecessors, of rogues who adapt themselves, of weak who assimilate themselves, and the masses who imitate without knowing at all what they want.”
“Nothing is more dissimilar than natural and acquired politeness. The first consists in a willing abnegation of self; the second in a compelled recollection of others.”
“Nothing is more dramatic than a well-placed pause.”
Source: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to Be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience
“Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.”
Source: Old Family Letters: Copied from the Originals for Alexander Biddle... Series A-[B]
“Nothing is more dreadful in life than the profound thought that death may only greet you with eternal nothingness.”
“Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1926-1929
“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.”
Source: From The Earth To The Moon / De la terre à la lune (Bilingual Edition: English - French / Édition bilingue: anglais - français)
“Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction to none of them, and yet he is the only despot who can never die, while any of his subjects live.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Nothing is more easy than to deceive one's self, as our affections are subtle persuaders.”
“Nothing is more effective in engaging your day than a genuine smile when appropriate.”
“Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise, and nothing is more lame than a cookie-cutter compliment.”
“Nothing is more effective than sincere, accurate praise.”
“Nothing is more endangered in the modern world than the powerful combination of hard work toward meaningful goals joined with an exuberant embrace of the present moment.”