Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 520 |
AUTHOR: | Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev (181883) |
QUOTATION: | To mortify and even to injure an opponent, reproach him with the very defect or vice … you feel … in yourself. |
ATTRIBUTION: | This appeared in Time, March 5, 1951, p. 31, in a different translation: If you desire to put your enemy in the wrong or even to damage his reputation, blame him for the very vice which you feel in yourself. |
SUBJECTS: | Enemies |