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'Have you, or have you not, got an income on which you live? demanded Mr. Chaffanbrass. 'I have an income, said Undy, not, however, in a voice that betokened much self-confidence in the strength of his own answer. 'You have an income, have you? And now, Mr. Scott, will you tell us what profession you follow at this moment with the object of increasing your income?
You have always depreciated my powers and scoffed at my talents. No thanks to you I have any self-confidence left." "All right, all right," Poppy said. "We can miss out the remainder of that speech. I know it by heart. Come to the point what do you want?" "I was just filling in the sketch of the third act." Poppy shrugged her shoulders and raised her hands with a despairing gesture.
It is much to be feared that his presence of mind was the effect of an obstinate and hardened self-confidence by which he put himself above everybody and every thing, since he never used it to repair, so far as in him lay, the public and private wrongs he caused.
After they have pinched and shaken all the life of an earthworm, as Italian cooks pound all the spirit out of a steak, and then gulped him, they stand up in honest self-confidence, expand their red waistcoats with the virtuous air of a lobby member, and outface you with an eye that calmly challenges inquiry. "Do I look like a bird that knows the flavor of raw vermin?
Gre herself appeared on the gallery, followed by Nick, who came down the steps with a careless self-confidence to greet the master. Indeed, a stranger might have thought that Mr. Temple was the host, and I saw Antoinette watching him furtively with a gleam of amusement in her eyes. "I am delighted to see you at last, Monsieur," said my cousin.
It would be much truer to say that a man will certainly fail, because he believes in himself. Complete self-confidence is not merely a sin; complete self-confidence is a weakness. Believing utterly in one's self is a hysterical and superstitious belief like believing in Joanna Southcote: the man who has it has `Hanwell' written on his face as plain as it is written on that omnibus."
"A long slab-sided useless feller. He's gone to live wid the blacks. He'll never come back no more. Most like he's dead by this time, speared or the like of that!" For a few seconds Blake, the cool, audacious gambler, was dazed, in spite of his natural self-confidence. He saw how he had been duped.
And always, at the end of this vista, there was success success great and tangible. He was amused by his own self-confidence, and laughed as he walked. But his mood never wavered. He had the power the gift. Nobody ever doubted that who saw him draw.
When a prince feels the necessity of taking the field at the head of his armies, but lacks the necessary self-confidence to assume the supreme direction of affairs, the best course will be that adopted by the Prussian government with Blücher, viz.; he should be accompanied by two generals of the best capacity, one of them a man of executive ability, the other a well-instructed staff officer.
Now that a reprieve was seemingly impossible, he faced his misfortunes with a dour courage. It had been a difficult and thankless task during the past month to stave off pressing creditors. With Iris in Bootle and Bulmer her devoted slave, Verity would have weathered the gale with jaunty self-confidence.
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