Quotes by Lavater, Johann Kaspar

Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence. >>

He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be >>

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the >>

Quotations about Candor

Frank and explicit -- that is the right line to take when you wish to >>

Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think. >>

There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. >>

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

Lavater, Johann Kaspar