Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts. (Marquis of Halifax)
Opinion Quotes
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but that they are not already common.
Within the last few decades, in countries like Britain or the United States, the literary intelligentsia has grown large enough to constitute a world in itself. One important result of this is that the opinions which a writer feels frightened of expressing are not those which are disapproved of by society as a whole. To […]
We suffer more from our opinions that we do from the events themselves.
This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
Force rules the world, and not opinion; but opinion is that which makes use of force.
What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues That rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, Make yourself scabs? (Coriolanus)
When people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.
If you want people to think well of you, do not speak well of yourself.
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.
