“she wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
Source: The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (2010), Chapter 9 (p. 103)
John Russell, 1st Earl Russell
(1792–1878) leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister on two occasions
Source: Essays and Sketches of Life and Character (1820), p. 136
Source: The Golden Notebook
“There are plenty of good people, but only a very, very few are precise and disciplined.”
Anton Chekhov
(1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to V.A. Posse (February 15, 1900)
Letters
“Everybody is interesting for an hour, but few people can last more than two.”
V.S. Naipaul
(1932–2018) Trinidadian-British writer of Indo-Nepalese ancestry
As quoted in "Wanderer of Endless Curiosity" by R. Z. Sheppard in Time magazine (10 July 1989) http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,958134,00.html
“People who have no vices, have very few virtues.”
Abraham Lincoln
(1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
According to The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln (1867) by F. B. Carpenter, Lincoln quoted this as having been said to him by a fellow-passenger in a stagecoach. See also "Washington during the War", Macmillan's Magazine 6:24 http://books.google.com/books?id=rB4AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA24&dq=folks (May 1862)
Posthumous attributions
Variant: It's my experience that folks who have no vices have generally very few virtues.