51 Quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

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.

When too many things are taken for granted, it isnext to impossible to perceive the truth.

Like all wage-slaves,he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.

Modesty is an excuse for sloppiness, laziness, self-indulgence; small ambitions evoke small efforts

One must start early to become a great man.

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.

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.

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.