human nature - quotes

Charles (John Huffam) Dickens, 1812-1870

was an English novelist

Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.

(Sir) Alfred (Joseph) Hitchcock, 1899-1980

was a British movie director

We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like.

Nicholas Rowe, 1674-1718

was an English dramatist, poet and miscellaneous writer

Death is the privilege of human nature,
And life without it were not worth our taking.

( “The Fair Penitent”, 1703 )