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I never smile unless I mean it.
— Donny Osmond
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
I think her flaws make me love her even more. She's not perfect, but she's perfect to me
— Jodi Picoult
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
I see so many little boys I wanna marry, I see plenty little kids I've yet to have.
— Devendra Banhart
Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
— George Saintsbury
Sometimes it's more important to change politicians than light bulbs.
— Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
— George Saintsbury
Time will say nothing but I told you so ...
— W. H. Auden
So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.
— George Saintsbury
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
— George Saintsbury
Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.
— George Saintsbury
The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
— George Saintsbury
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
— George Saintsbury
It's tricky playing people that you don't like and finding a way to empathise with them. It's challenging and very exciting for an actor.
— Carey Mulligan
You kissed, Wheeler, as in the guy who just canceled his wedding to a raging she-beast?" Her
— Jay Crownover
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
— George Saintsbury
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
— Boyle Roche
Thus the slopes of Everest are littered with corpses.
— Jon Krakauer
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
— George Saintsbury
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
— George Saintsbury
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
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
— George Saintsbury