A man to whom no one is pleasing is much more unhappy than one who pleases nobody.

It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Heaven forbid! — That would be the greatest misfortune of all! — To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! — Do not wish me such an evil.

I hate him for himself, but despise him for the memories he revives.

Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.

I detest a man who knows that he knows.

The man who does not enjoy doing noble actions is not a good man at all.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

He who is not enviable is not admirable.

Wanting to be liked is often a very unlikeable characteristic.

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

A man that don’t love a horse, there is something the matter with him.