Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vainKarl KrausrightmodestyvanitydutycharacterCopy this quote
“A reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure until he knows whether the writer of it be a black man or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor
“Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty