Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well. - Florence King

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I'm struck by how laughter connects you with people. It's almost impossible to maintain any kind of distance or any sense of social hierarchy when you're just howling with laughter. Laughter is a force for democracy.

Florence King

Insecurity breeds treachery: if you are kind to people who hate themselves, they will hate you as well.

Hate, Insecurity, Kind, People

Same Author Quotes

A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt.

Egg, Eggs, Grandmother, Home, Like, Salt

The American way of stress is comparable to Freud's 'beloved symptom', his name for the cherished neurosis that a patient cultivates like the rarest of orchids and does not want to be cured of. Stress makes Americans feel busy, important, and in demand, and simultaneously deprived, ignored, and victimized. Stress makes them feel interesting and complex instead of boring and simple, and carries an assumption of sensitivity not unlike the Old World assumption that aristocrats were high-strung. In short, stress has become a status symbol.

Complex, Names, Patient, Rarest, Simple, Stress

Updike's style is an exquisite blend of Melville and Austen: reading him is like cutting through whale blubber with embroidery scissors.

Cutting, Embroidery, Reading, Whales

Men are not very good at loving, but they are experts at admiring and respecting; the woman who goes after their admiration and respect will often come out better than she who goes out after their love.

Admiration, Admiring, Experts, Men, Respect

I've always said that next to Imperial China, the South is the best place in the world to be an old lady.

Best Place, Imperial, Lady, Next, World

Similar Quotes

Emanuel Lasker

By what right does White, in an absolutely even position, such as after move one, when both sides have advanced 1. e4, sacrifice a pawn, whose recapture is quite uncertain, and open up his kingside to attack? And then follow up this policy by leaving the check of the black queen open? None whatever!

Move, Moving, Position, Queens, Sacrifice

John Cleese

Distance, Humor, Laughter, People, Sense, Social

Cass McCombs

I have been singing as long as I can remember. I used to be in choir; I used to do musical theater. I'd prefer not to sing my own songs, but there you have it.

Long, Musical, Prefer, Remember, Song

Edmund Hillary

My mother really was the strength in our family. She would sort of keep us in line and I admired her very much.

Admired, Lines, Mother, Our Family, Strength

Julia Stiles

I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you.

Believe, Bell, Funny, Huge, People, Thinking