Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan,—as portrayed by Milton.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

“It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.”
—Alice Miller (20th century)

“It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks latenesses, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patchings to repair great rents in the quotidian.”
—John Updike (b. 1932)