Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
Arthur Helps quotes about
vices world tolerate
The world will tolerate many vices, but not their diminutives.
lying men world
Do not shun this maxim because it is common-place. On the contrary, take the closest heed of what observant men, who would probably like to show originality, are yet constrained to repeat. Therein lies the marrow of the wisdom of the world.
character world concern
The world will find out that part of your character which concerns it: that which especially concerns yourself, it will leave for you to discover.
ego selfishness world
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
wise lonely retirement
A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
men illusion he-man
Most terrors are but spectral illusions. Only have the courage of the man who could walk up to his spectre seated in the chair before him, and sit down upon it; the horrid thing will not partake the chair with you.
character men opinion
The reasons which any man offers to you for his own conduct betray his opinion of your character.
ignorance simple names
Simple ignorance has in its time been complimented by the names of most of the vices, and of all the virtues.
made blunders bus
There is one statesman of the present day, of whom I always say that he would have escaped making the blunders that he has made if he had only ridden more in buses.
men belief bureaucracy
An official man is always an official man, and he has a wild belief in the value of reports.
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation.
real civilization tolerance
Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.
honesty hypocrite expression
There is an honesty which is but decided selfishness in disguise. The person who will not refrain from expressing his or her sentiments and manifesting his or her feelings, however unfit the time, however inappropriate the place, however painful this expression may be, lays claim, forsooth, to our approbation as an honest person, and sneers at those of finer sensibilities as hypocrites.
greatness men quality
The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.