277 Quotes by Johann Kaspar Lavater

Mistrust the person who finds everything good, and the person who finds everything evil, and mistrust even more the person who is indifferent to everything.

He who is passionate and hasty is generally honest. It is your cool, dissembling hypocrite of whom you should beware.

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.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.

Trust him with none of thy individualities who is, or pretends to be, two things at once.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

He whose pride oppresses the humble may perhaps be humbled, but will never be humble.

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.