Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“The human plagiarism which is most difficult to avoid, for individuals ... is the plagiarism of ourself.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)

“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)

“In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)