Johann Kaspar Lavater Want Quotations

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

How few our real wants, and how vast our imaginary ones!

He who goes round about in his requests wants commonly more than he chooses to appear to want.

In the society of ladies, want of sense is not so unpardonable as want of manners.