Quotes by Lessing, Doris

The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable. >>

What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is first-rate, that >>

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and importa >>

Quotations about Self-image

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spo >>

We can bear to be deprived of everything but our self-conceit. >>

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interes >>

It is terrible to destroy a person's picture of himself in the interests of truth or some other abstraction.

Lessing, Doris