"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

"The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them."
— Maya Angelou

"I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights."
— Maya Angelou

"There are two types of people in this world. People who hate clowns...and clowns. (Bobby Pendragon)"
— D.J. MacHale (The Quillan Games)

"It's not that I don't like people. It's just that when I'm in the company of others - even my nearest and dearest - there always comes a moment when I'd rather be reading a book."
— Maureen Corrigan (Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books)

"People are more difficult to work with than machines. And when you break a person, he can't be fixed. "
— Rick Riordan (The Battle of the Labyrinth)

"Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment. "
— Rick Riordan

"Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you."
— Dale Carnegie (How to Win Friends & Influence People)

"He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most terrifying thing in the world, really—taking someone on faith, hoping they’ll take you on faith too. It’s such a precarious balance, It’s a wonder we do it at all. And yet... "
— Libba Bray

"It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them."
— P.G. Wodehouse

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
— Plato

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them."
— Abraham Lincoln

"People are the most difficult thing in the world to change"
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

"I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!"
— Diana Wynne Jones (Castle in the Air)

"If you give people tools, and they use their natural abilities and their curiosity, they will develop things in ways that will surprise you very much beyond what you might have expected."
— Bill Gates

"I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface."
— Stephen Sondheim

"“‘There are two kinds of people,’ she’d said. ‘Those who coast through life like ducks in a row, following one after the other, and those who ride the waves.’” Tears spilled down my cheeks, and my voice cracked. “‘Ride the waves, baby, and live. Live.’”"
— Gena Showalter (Oh My Goth)

"The person you have known a long tme is embedded in you like a jewel. The person you have just met casts out a few glistening beams & you are fascinated to see more of them. How many more are there? With someone you've barely met the curiosity is intoxicating."
— Naomi Shihab Nye

"Oh how I hate people!"
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

"A narrow mind and a fat head invariably come on the same person."
— Zig Ziglar

"A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don't know how it will end. Or it wouldn't be worth reading"
— Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)

"There are three types of people in this world:
People who can count, and people who can't!"
— JLMoore

"To Live is to die,To gain is to give,Sleeping is To Dream,Power is War
and Peace is to let Go of everything in the past before your time."
— Sammy Jackson

"An army of the people is invincible!"
— Mao Zedong (Quotations From Chairman Mao Tse-Tung)

"There are no people who are ugly. There are only people who are beautiful."
— Rin Avey

"Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it."
— Michel Faber (The Crimson Petal and the White)

"It is no use trying to sum people up."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)

"I LOVE DRAGONS"
— Anne Rice (Sleeping Beauty Box Set)

"People always wanted someone to blame, didn't they?"
— Eileen Wilks (On the Prowl (Includes: Alpha & Omega Prequel; World of the Lupi, #3.5; Dorina Basarab Prequel; Monère, #3))

"Mean people suck"
— Jim Goad

"You come to work every day but you hardly get to know anyone. I don't even know the names of half the people I see in the elevators. They say the company is a big family, but I don't know them. And even the people I do, like you two, and Elizabeth, and Roger - do I really? I mean, I like you guys, but we only ever talk about work. When I'm out with friends, or at home, I never talk about work. The other day, I tried to explain to my sister why it's such a huge deal that Elizabeth ate Roger's donut, and she thought I was insane. And you know what, I agreed with her. At home I couldn't even think why it mattered. Because I'm a different person at home. When I leave this place at night, I can feel myself changing. Like shifting gears in my head. And you guys don't know that; you just know what I'm like here, which is terrible, because I think I'm better away from work. I don't even like who I am here. Is that just me? Or is everyone different when they come to work? If they are, then what are they really like? How can we ever know? All we know are the Work People."
— Max Barry (Company)