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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Tear him for his bad verses, tear him for his bad verses.

The Big Bow-Wow strain I can do myself like any now going; but the exquisite touch, which renders ordinary commonplace things and characters interesting, from the truth of the description and the sentiment, is denied to me.

The play-bill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

If thou would’st view fair Melrose aright,

The song was wordless; the singing will never be done.

Just as the sweet-apple reddens on the high branch, high on the highest, and the apple-pickers missed it, or rather did not miss it out, but could not reach it.

Some say an army of cavalry or of infantry or a fleet of ships is the most beautiful thing on the black earth. But I say it is whatever one loves.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

We haven’t got the money, so we’ve got to think!

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty—a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion—all in one.

All violent feelings … produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.