Habit Quotes - Page 20
Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”
Lillian Hellman (1942). “Four plays, by Lillian Hellman: The children's hour. Days to come. The little foxes. Watch on the Rhine”, Modern Library
it was her habit to build up laughter out of inadequate materials.
John Steinbeck (2016). “The Grapes of Wrath”, p.58, Hamilton Books
John le Carre (2002). “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy”, p.377, Simon and Schuster
It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”
Jack Gilbert (2012). “Collected Poems”, p.293, Knopf
Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria
Ease leads to habit, as success to ease. He lives by rule who lives himself to please.
George Crabbe, George Crabbe (Jr.) (1834). “The poetical works of the rev. George Crabbe: with his letters and journals, and his life”, p.37