Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey
Stephen Vizinczey, originally István Vizinczey, is an author and writer...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionAuthor
caviar ego exquisite resist taste
Another person's ego is the most exquisite of delicacies, king's caviar - those who taste it can never resist it.
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We live under the tyranny of various professional groups, and all the 'influence' we could bring to bear on the running of schools, trains or power stations isn't sufficient to move a feather.
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People will either like you for your money or they'll resent you for having it.. So you're stuck with a small group who are as rich as you are, and that doesn't give you much choice.
efforts evoke excuse modesty small
Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts
early great start
One must start early to become a great man.
impossible perceive taken truth
When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth.
crosses people worked
Like all wage-slaves,he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.
abyss burst cannot forth nature quick women
Women cannot always flow, and even when they do, they well up slowly, while men are quick as torrents - they are primed by nature to burst forth at different times... the twenty-minute gap, the abyss between the sexes.
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To be jealous of a woman one doesn't love is the most ridiculous form of vanity, but Hardwick, surrounded by people whose livelihood depended on him, had no idea that he could be ridiculous.
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With professionals she was professional: she concentrated on looking unimpressed.
culture elegant heard knowing lifestyle millions mixture notion people
There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.
seems vices
A man's virtues, it seems to me, are his abilities, and his vices are his deficiencies.
almost oh relief stopped worrying
Oh God,' he groaned. 'I'd almost forgotten! What a relief it was when I stopped worrying about being good!
anyone explain submit terms trying
I submit that anyone who is trying to explain one thing in terms of something else has nothing important to say.