Johann Kaspar Lavater - Best Quotes

I am prejudiced in favor of him who without impudence can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

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A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Wushu is a move in Chinese a physical move. An attack. Wushu is like an art.

My first love is art and I see a lot of things in an artistic way.

In my world history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought who won them and who lost them – unless there is a painting a play a song or a poem that speaks of the event.

The idea of avant-garde art is a very suspicious thing to me the idea that poetry is new and it keeps being new the way Chevrolets every year are new.

Any work that aspires however humbly to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

When thou art at Rome do as they do at Rome.

Rock isn't art it's the way ordinary people talk.

Tell me thy company and I'll tell thee what thou art.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater

If you wish to appear agreeable in society you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God respect time.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

Neatness begets order but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius or from love to friendship.

I am prejudiced in favor of him who without impudence can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Trust him not with your secrets who when left alone in your room turns over your papers.

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.