Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only considerably cheaper morally, but it sometimes increases their pride so much that pretty soon they look down on their benefactor.
Arthur SchnitzlerMartyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief.
Arthur SchnitzlerTo be ready is one thing, to be able to wait is another; but to seize the right moment is everything.
Arthur SchnitzlerNo specter assails us in more varied disguises than loneliness, and one of its most impenetrable masks is called love.
Arthur Schnitzler