Quotes by Critics - Page 10

The man who has no inner life is the slave of his surroundings.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap.
George Bernard Shaw
Cats and monkeys - monkeys and cats - all human life is there.
Henry James
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
Mary McCarthy
A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
Marya Mannes
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state. We must be doing something to be happy.
William Hazlitt
To get others to come into our ways of thinking we must go over to theirs and it is necessary to follow in order to lead.
William Hazlitt
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H.L. Mencken
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
All that men really understand is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture.
William Hazlitt
Stolen kisses are always sweetest.
Leigh Hunt
Jenny kissed me when we met Jumping from the chair she sat in Time you thief who love to get Sweets into your list put that in. Say I'm weary say I'm sad Say that health and wealth have missed me Say I'm growing old but add Jenny kissed me.
Leigh Hunt
Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
H.L. Mencken
It was thy kiss Love that made me immortal.
Margaret Fuller
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
John Dennis
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.
James Russell Lowell
The love of liberty is the love of others the love of power is the love of ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
Mary McCarthy
Calumny requires no proof. The throwing out of malicious imputations against any character leaves a stain which no after-refutation can wipe out. To create an unfavourable impression it is not necessary that certain things should be true but that they have been said.
William Hazlitt
The way to procure insults is to submit to them. A man meets with no more respect than he exacts.
William Hazlitt
Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.
Randolph Bourne
Man is a passion which brings a will into play which works an intelligence.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Man becomes man only by his intelligence but he is man only by his heart.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour germinates no more.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
You cannot know what you cannot feel.
Marya Mannes
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
Unconsciousness spontaneity instinct ... hold us to the earth and dictate the relatively good and useful.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.
George E. Woodberry
The more we do the more we can do the more busy we are the more leisure we have.
William Hazlitt
We love in others what we lack ourselves and would be everything but what we are.
R. H. Stoddard
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.
Brooks Atkinson
We are not hypocrites in our sleep.
William Hazlitt
The love of truth lies at the root of much humour.
Robertson Davies
Wit is the only wall Between us and the dark.
Mark Van Doren
The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.
John Updike
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another all would be well with the world. This seemed simple and very nice but I found when I tried to put it in practice not only that other people were seldom lovable but that I was not very lovable myself.
George Bernard Shaw
When you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human being and not a sort of caricature embodying certain ideas. It is partly for this reason that I don't mix much in literary circles because I know from experience that once I have met and spoken to anyone I shall never again be able to feel any intellectual brutality towards him even when I feel I ought to - like the Labour M.P.s who get patted on the back by dukes and are lost forever more.
George Orwell
The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance ' and I have found his words true.
Frank Swinnerton
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
A daydreamer is prepared for most things.
Joyce Carol Oates
The happy ending is our national belief.
Mary McCarthy
None are completely wretched but those who are without hope and few are reduced so low as that.
William Hazlitt
Would that ... a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honour become identical.
Margaret Fuller
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck by the difference between what things are and what they might have been.
William Hazlitt
The dignity of man lies in his ability to face reality in all its meaningless-ness.
Martin Esslin
A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood Krutch
Man is a make-believe animal - he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part.
William Hazlitt
Man is the only creature that consumes without producing.
George Orwell
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
George Bernard Shaw
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
Randall Jarrell
Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
William Hazlitt
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
Marya Mannes
The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.
George E. Woodberry
It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.
Marya Mannes