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| We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion. | | Uncategorized | |
| We well know that it is bad taste to talk of our wives; but we do not so well know that it is the same to speak of ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| We were in the cemetery in Limerick with the CBS crew, and it is an ancient cemetery that my mother's family was buried in, a graveyard, and it's so bad that graves are collapsing, the tombstones are collapsing, and all along you see handles from coffins, and bones. | | Uncategorized | |
| We wish to attract praise to ourselves even as we seem to be praising others | | Praise | |
| We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. | | Uncategorized | |
| We would often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood all the motives which produced them | | Action | |
| We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all. | | Uncategorized | |
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| Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended. | | Uncategorized | |
| What causes people to buy a product? What causes someone to pull a lever and get them to vote? I need to know the specifics of that. | | Uncategorized | |
| What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends, is not the distrust we have of them, but that we have of ourselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. | | Uncategorized | |
| What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. | | Generosity | |
| What makes false reckoning, as regards gratitude, is that the pride of the giver and the receiver cannot agree as to the value of the benefit. | | Uncategorized | |
| What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves. | | Uncategorized | |
| What makes the grief of shame and jealousy so acute is that vanity cannot aid us in enduring them. | | Uncategorized | |
| What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own | | Vanity | |
| What makes us like new studies is not so much the weariness we have of the old or the wish for change as the desire to be admired by those who know more than ourselves, and the hope of advantage over those who know less. | | Uncategorized | |
| What makes us see that men know their faults better than we imagine, is that they are never wrong when they speak of their conduct; the same self-love that usually blinds them enlightens them, and gives them such true views as to make them suppress or dis | | Uncategorized | |
