Quotes on Stiffness

Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.