Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

    “Elsa Bannister: The Chinese say “It is difficult for love to last long; therefore one who loves passionately is cured of love, in the end.”
    Michael O’Hara: That’s a hard way of thinking.
    Elsa: There’s more to the proverb: “Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end.””
    —Orson Welles (1915–1985)

    “It is comedy which typifies, where it is tragedy which individualizes; where tragedy observes the nice distinctions between man and man, comedy stresses those broad resemblances which make it difficult to tell people apart.”
    —Harry Levin (b. 1912)

    “Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave.”
    —Henry Peter, 1st Baron Brougham And Vaux Brougham (1778–1868)