Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach People Quotations

If you have one good idea, people will lend you twenty.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

People more easily tolerate opposition than a contradiction

The sympathy of most people consists of a mixture of good-humour, curiosity, and self-importance.

Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel.

It's bad enough when married people bore one another, but it's much worse when only one of them bores the other.

Only those few people who practice it believe in goodness.

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts.