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George Saintsbury quotes: Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

George Saintsbury quotes: Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

George Saintsbury quotes: The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

George Saintsbury quotes: Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

George Saintsbury quotes: As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.

As for the insane doctrine that being born in a country gives some right to the possession of the soil of that country, it hardly requires notice.

George Saintsbury quotes: But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

George Saintsbury quotes: Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

George Saintsbury quotes: Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

George Saintsbury quotes: The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

George Saintsbury quotes: Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

George Saintsbury quotes: I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

George Saintsbury quotes: So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.

George Saintsbury quotes: When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.

George Saintsbury quotes: Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.

Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.