quotes about Confidant

last updated: November 28, 2023

Tis the greatest misfortune in nature for a woman to want a confidant.
-- George Farquhar

Source : William. II Congreve William Wycherley (John Vanbrugh and Farquhar George), William. II Wycherley, William Congreve, George Farquhar, John Vanbrugh (1840). “Dramatic Works with Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. - London, Moxon 1840”, p.628

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“What's "God"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.”
“I'm making fun of midwestern homophobia [in the joke], but I'm still saying faggot. And almost every month as I'm doing that joke it gets five percent less of a laugh.”
“During my tenure at the Endowment, I often found that those who did us the most damage did so under the justification of helping us by 'preventing worse language.' In the military it would be called friendly fire. One ends up just as dead.”

Source : John Frohnmayer (1993). “Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.”
“Sasuke: Snakes can sense things through temperature, and they can also do it with their sense of smell by passing the smell in the mouth." Itachi: You've learnt a lot...Dr. Snakes”
“Don't count on the power of your love or your nagging to create something that wasn't there to begin with.”

Source : FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Nov 16, 2016
“I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.”
“I have been very influenced by the Japanese concept of space - the preciousness of space, and how one's environment can be shaped to make the most out of limited resources. That's the kind of thing we need to look at again - how momentous the results can be from very subtle changes.”
“But this is exactly why I read--and don't belong to a book group--because reading is the most individual thing there is. Why collectivize it? Didn't we have enough bad English teachers in school? Crowd sourcing and literature shouldn't mix.”
“If you're surrounded by idiots, you're the unpopular one and the odd one out because idiots don't like smart asses.”