“Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.”
"Reginald at the Carlton"
Reginald (1904)
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“Blameless people are always the most exasperating.”
Source: Middlemarch
Amoreena
Song lyrics, Tumbleweed Connection (1970)
“How many people live on the reputation of the reputation they might have made!”
The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (1858)
Source: The Demon-Haunted World : Science as a Candle in the Dark (1995), Ch. 2 : Science and Hope, p. 30
“The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.”
Variant: The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
GWU interview (1997)
Context: You know, you have to really decide where you want to live: if you want to live in the jungle or in the zoo. Because if you want the beauty, if you want freedom, the jungle is... that's your world. But you're in danger there, you have to live with snakes, sharks, tigers, skunks, you know, mosquitoes, leeches. You want to be safe, you have to live in the zoo. You are protected. You know, if you are a lamb, the tiger will not attack you. You know, you'll get a little bit something to eat every day; that's fine. You have to work hard, but you live behind the bars, and what's wonderful — you live there behind the bars and you dream about the beauty of the jungle. Now what happened was that the bars opened, and everybody runs after the dream. And suddenly, well, yeah, it's beautiful — yes, I am free to go wherever I want, do whatever I want, but where do I want to go? Oh, my God, and here is a tiger and here's a snake. Oh, oh, and people have a tendency to, you know, back. And you will be surprised how many people prefer to live in the zoo; they are not ready to pay for the freedom; they think that freedom should be, you know, for free, even for granted, which never is, never is.