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| I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. | | Ernest Hemingway | | |
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| I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| I love acting. It is so much more real than life. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| I repeat that sin, man's self-violation par excellence, was invented purely inorder to make science, culture, and every elevation and ennobling of man impossible; the priest rules by the invention of sin. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. | | Oscar Wilde | | |
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| I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer. | | Friedrich Nietzsche | | |
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| Ideas must work through the brains and arms of men, or they are no better than dreams. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring or Autumn; or can liberate and intoxicate all people who hear him with delicious songs and verses; it is certain that the secret cannot be kept; the first witness tells it to a second, and men go by fives and tens and fifties to his doors. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | | |
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| If a man remembers what is right at the sign of profit, is ready to lay down his life in the face of danger, and does not forget sentiments he has repeated all his life when he has been in straitened circumstances for a long time, he may be said to be a complete man. | | Confucius | | |
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| If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. | | Confucius | | |
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| If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has. | | Confucius | | |
