Sarah Fielding Quotes

The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

All traditions are stupid unless you came up with it yourself.

There is but one man who can believe himself free from envy; and it is he who has never examined his own heart.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

The proud hate pride in others.

I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

The first thought that occurred to me, that night when I heard the chairman of the jury announce my name, was, Just think how many people hate me at this moment. Naturally, I wanted to annoy those people even further by being arrogant.

Nothing resembles selfishness more closely than self-respect

It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley.

Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me.

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something crawling in their clothes.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

We never understand a thing so well,and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.

It’s disgusting that some focus on looks. I brought a beautiful child into this world.

I can tell you one thing. I've done this my way. I don't have anybody to blame for this win but me, and I love it.

If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs.

This is a weakness of the world. Someone thinks they've discovered something for the first time. They want to be authoritative about it.

You’re a human, you should understand self-obsession.

Who knows his virtues name or place, hath none.

There are too many things we do not wish to know about ourselves. People are not, for example, terribly anxious to be equal (equal, after all, to what and to whom?) but they love the idea of being superior.

Those who most obstinately oppose the most widely-held opinions more often do so because of pride than lack of intelligence. They find the best places in the right set already taken, and they do not want back seats.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.