Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alfred Nobel

I am a misanthrope yet utterly benevolent.

Ivor Novello

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

Irving Layton

I have stopped being a misanthrope.

Nicolas Chamfort

Whoever is not a misanthrope at forty can never have loved mankind.

Atharva Veda

The one, who is benevolent and liberal enjoys peace, happiness and prosperity.

Tom Baker

I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.

Jaiprakash Gaur

A leader who is a benevolent dictator is actually a democrat by spirit.

Thomas Jefferson

But friendship is precious, not only in shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine

Alan Johnson

We're often kind and benevolent to senior executives who fail,

Barry Humphries

I've decided the secret of parenting is benevolent neglect.

Adrian McKinty

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.

Val McDermid

Why do the police need to know where I am? In the hands of a benevolent government, they could be looking after your interests, but what if the next government isn't so benevolent?

Matt Mullenweg

There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.