Alter Quotes

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Fashion
  • Have
  • Ugliness

• The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Value
  • Things

• Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

  

  Confucius
  • Faults
  • Alter

• Circumstances should never alter principles!

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Should
  • Circumstances
  • Principles

• It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

  

  Frank Muir
  • Words
  • Hymn
  • Aisle

• I think we were colonized by aliens 250,000 years ago, and they genetically altered our DNA to be primates into homo erectus and humans. I'm very interested in how we evolved so suddenly, which obviously ties in with the alien thing.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Evolve
  • Primates
  • Colonize

• Only the supremely wise and the ignorant do not alter.

  

  Confucius
  • Wise
  • Ignorant
  • Alter

• Thus it often is with us, we take a course, and we keep to it, as if we were infallible, and we allow nothing to alter our convictions. We persuade ourselves that we are right, and we hold on our course unmoved. Death steps in: and now, when the past is irrevocable, the scales that have so long darkened our eyes, fall at once to the ground, and we see that we were wrong after all. How much cruel conduct, how many harsh words, how many little unkindnesses do we wish unspoken and undone when we look upon a dead face we have loved, or stand by the side of a new-made grave! how we wish—how we wish that we could but have the time over again! Perhaps in past times we were quite content with our own conduct; we had no doubts in our mind but that we always did what was right and kind, and that we were in every way doing our duty. But now in what a different light do right and duty appear! how we regret that we ever caused tears to flow from those dear eyes, now never to open again! why could we not have made those small concessions which would have cost us so little, why were we so hard upon that trifling fault, why so impatient with that little failing? Ah me! ah me! if we could but live our lives over again, how different, oh, how different it should be! And yet while we say this, we do not think that there are others yet alive upon whose faults we are just as hard, with whose failings we bear just as little, and that these, too, may some day go down into the quiet grave, and that we may again have to stand beside and cry 'peccavi'.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Conviction
  • Alter
  • Infallible

• One study suggests that the most effective way to increase an Achievement may be to try simply and directly to alter the nature of an individual’s fantasies

  

  David McClelland
  • Nature
  • Increase
  • Alter

• I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times.

  

  Plato
  • Die
  • Ways
  • Alter

• But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever.

  

  Jane Austen
  • People
  • Alter
  • Observed

• In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little.

  

  George Eliot
  • Little
  • Number
  • Vocations

• It's not my job to try and alter the director's style - he's in charge, and I'll always give him my trust.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Job
  • Style
  • Trust

• Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Love
  • Dream
  • Passion

• “Get two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.”

  

  Anne Royall
  • Religion
  • Constitution
  • Alter

• To become indignant at people's conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • People
  • Foolish
  • Alter

• Don't worry about things you cannot alter

  

  Catherine the Great
  • Worry
  • Cannot
  • Do Not

• With every character, you alter, you can’t be attached to your own identity.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Character
  • Identity
  • Alter