Juliet Marillier Quotes

I don't want you to think I'm better than people or that I know better than people.

You may be smart, but I've been smart longer.

Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.

In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.

People assume that I'm wiser than I am because I'm somewhat successful. Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. If you're dumb when you're young, you're going to be dumb when you're old.

Pride measures prosperity not by her own advantages but by the disadvantages of others. She would not even wish to be a goddess unless there were some wretches left whom she could order about and lord it over, whose misery would make her happiness seem all the more extraordinary, whose poverty can be tormented and exacerbated by a display of her wealth. This infernal serpent, pervading the human heart, keeps men from reforming their lives, holding them back like a suckfish.

Arrogance and snobbism live in adjoining rooms and use a common currency.

Showing off is what you do when your are simply better than everybody else.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves.

Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacence, if they discover none of the like in themselves.

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Do not try to entrap others with your haughty knowledge. To your wide surprise, they will entrap you with their lengthy ignorance.

Israelis keep teaching you your own business. God knows everything but the Israelis know everything better.

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.

We had enough quite enough snobbery in this world without exporting it to the hereafter.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

You display inordinate pride for someone who has completed a task which could have been performed by a lesser primate in a shorter time.

He thought others were small; that was his greatness.

You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!

I'm not being condescending, I'm too busy thinking about far more important things you wouldn't understand.

There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.

Why does that pharmacist have to be two and a half feet higher than everybody else? Who the hell is this guy? "Clear out, everybody. I'm working with pills up here. I'm taking them from this big bottle and then I'm gonna put them in the little bottle. That's my whole job. I can't be down on the floor with you people."