Good Opinion Quotes

• We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • People
  • Satisfaction
  • Vanity

• Seducing one's neighbor to a good opinion and then afterwards believing devoutly in this neighbor's opinion--who can match women in this clever ploy?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Believing
  • Good Opinion
  • Ploy

• ... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Consideration
  • Tale
  • Befriend

• If you want others to have a good opinion of you, say nothing.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Want
  • Good Opinion

• Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Man
  • Holds
  • Good Opinion

• In old age, she thought, how it all falls away. Your good opinion of yourself, all the virtues you had thought you had, your beauty, your wealth.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Wealth
  • Virtues
  • Old Age

• Salvation is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • God
  • Salvation
  • Good Opinion