Saintsbury Quotes
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Saintsbury Quotes & Sayings
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Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
— Joseph Joubert
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
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
— George Saintsbury
The modern pantheist not only sees the god in everything, he takes photographs of it.
— D.H. Lawrence
The hardest thing to attain ... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
— George Saintsbury
Cats are people, and the sooner the world accepts that fact, the better off the world will be.
— H. Allen Smith
Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.
— 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
So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.
— George Saintsbury
I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
— George Saintsbury
Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
— George Saintsbury
Most passport pictures are good likenesses, and it is time we faced it.
— Katharine Brush
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
— George Saintsbury
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
— Eric Ripert
There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
— Mackenzie Astin
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
— George Saintsbury
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
— George Saintsbury
A bit of exercise lifts the spirit. (The Angel's Game)
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin
— Charles Hodge
What's considered enough money? Just a little bit more.
— Will Rogers
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
— George Saintsbury
The games industry is the only industry with the tools and the talent to create real-time immersive 3D environments.
— Palmer Luckey
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
How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen