Power as is really divided, and as dangerously to all purposes, by sharing with another an Indirect Power, as a Direct one.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
When you are looking for corruption, you should look at the entire stratum of the society, while some forms of corruption are direct, others are indirect.
I'm not a person who likes to confront.
Your strength is soft, indirect, delicate, tender, womanly. But it is strength just the same.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
People don't like when people are straight forward. They like things to be sugar coated. They like to beat around the bush. I'm not that type of person.
Please follow me because I have to follow him and he isn't here.
A rogue is a roundabout fool.
I have a position of indirect respect and oblique power.
The best way to teach somebody something is to have them think they're learning something else.
Yes, well, let me tell you that if nobody had ever learned to quote, very few people would be in love with La Rochefoucauld. I bet you I don't know ten souls who read him without a middleman.
So long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Only an indirect method is effective. We do nothing if we have not first drawn back.
Abuse is an indirect species of homage.
there is a law of retribution in all things, direct or indirect, visible or invisible.
My knowledge of myself is direct, synthetic, from within outwards; my knowledge of other persons is indirect, analytical, from outside inwards. My knowledge of myself starts at the core; that of others at the crust.
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
