Difficult

Famous quotes containing the word difficult:

“It is difficult to be a good person.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Our vanity wishes precisely what we do best to be regarded as what is most difficult to us. On the origin of many a morality.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

“Our good schools today are much better than the best schools of yesterday. When I was your age and a pupil in school, our teachers were our enemies.
Can any thing ... be more painful to a friendly mind, than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relator or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)