Edmund Burke Quotes

I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

In all known time there has never been a greater monster or miracle than the human being.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

Of course, we're all a mass of contradictions.

When I'm doing a drama, I wish I was doing something funny. When I'm doing something funny, I wish I was doing something more serious. I think it's just human nature.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.

As human beings, we are all flawed. And just like there is a good side, there is also a bad side waiting to find its way out.

I am a deeply superficial person.

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing.

The world asks us to be quickly readable, but the thing about human beings is that we are more than one thing. We are multiple selves. We are massively contradictory.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

Oh, I am an angel, though sometimes I wish I was more of a devil.

Humans are capable of so much creativity and goodness and at the same time they are destructive and cruel. (Leta)

Man is an embodied paradox, a bundle of contradictions.

Man is a paradoxical being - the constant glory and scandal of this world.

Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you

Poor humanity!--so dependent, so insignificant, and yet so great.

That weakness in human nature which goes by the name of strength.

But what are you going to do about the people who are cursed with both hearts and brains?

I don't like human nature, but I do like human beings.

Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused; Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled,- The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.