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READING SHOULD NOT BE PRESENTED TO CHILDREN AS A CHORE OR A DUTY. IT SHOULD BE OFFERED TO THEM AS A PRECIOUS GIFT.
— Kate DiCamillo
The Primrose for a veil had spread The largest of her upright leaves; And thus for purposes benign, A simple flower deceives.
— William Wordsworth
The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god ...
— Aristotle.
With Michelangelo anatomical science is transformed into music. With him the human body is architectonic matter for the construction of dreams.
— Umberto Boccioni
People tell me I'm a misanthrope just because I hate all mankind.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
You call me a misanthrope because I avoid society. You err; I love society. Yet in order not to hate people, I must avoid their company.
— Caspar David Friedrich
You know, I thought we could use a good myth about technology to help guide us through these particular modern waters right now.
— Jeff Bridges
I have stopped being a misanthrope.
— Irving Layton
I fall in love with everything I also hate everything. It's very hard to be a misanthrope and a romantic.
— Marilyn Manson
Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
There are things you're just positive will happen to you. Then there's that second when you realize, Jesus Christ. Maybe they won't.
— Jennifer Egan
I'm a realist." "You're a misanthrope.
— Jason Mott
Let the misanthrope shun men and abjure; the most are rather lovable than hateful.
— Martin Farquhar Tupper
Sincerity is the defence of every misanthrope.
— David Joseph Cribbin
I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.
— Alfred Nobel
A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope, never!
— Oscar Wilde
My brother asked me once, 'Are you a misanthrope?' And I said, 'No, I just find people irritating.'
— Craig Kilborn
There is no place in the world, I imagine, for a philosopher with a sense of humor, a new leisure, and an inquiring turn of mind!
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist ... I can digest philosophy better than food.
— Alfred Nobel
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— Walter Isaacson
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
— Herman Melville
Maybe we are trying to meet every single person in order to be sure we have the best. Maybe we have it all wrong.
— Aziz Ansari
Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.
— Nicolas Chamfort
If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.
— Florence King
I'm not anti-social. I'm just not social.
— Woody Allen
I was an incredibly misanthrope. I couldn't relate to people my age, and I'm not sure why, as I wasn't particularly smart or interesting
— Laura Marling
I grew up in Oregon, where as a teenager I worked with my grandfather Axel on his i shing boat at the mouth of the Columbia River.
— Karl Marlantes
Why do they call me misanthrope? Because They hate me, not I them.
— George Gordon Byron