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For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

Il n’y a pas de hors-texte.

There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. review of the Works of Pope (1847 ed.) in North British Review August 1848, vol. 9

Murder considered as one of the fine arts.

Slowly, silently, now the moon

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last.

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.

Art is vice. You don’t marry it legitimately, you rape it.

Il maestro di color che sanno.

the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;

Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Philologists, who chase

Just say the lines and don’t trip over the furniture.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Don’t put your daughter on the stage, Mrs Worthington,

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life.

My task which I am trying to achieve is by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast.

To see him act, is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

Prose = words in their best order;—poetry = the best words in the best order.

That willing suspension of disbelief for the moment, which constitutes poetic faith.

The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.