George Saintsbury Famous Quotes



Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.


George Saintsbury Quotations






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I have Immortal longings in me.
William Shakespeare

Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Proverb

"In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint."
Lyndon B Johnson

"Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did."
Lillian Hellman

"It's not the having, its the getting."
Elizabeth Taylor

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
George Eliot

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.
David Borenstein

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
Douglas Noel Adams

"Her grandmother, as she gets older, is not fading but rather becoming more concentrated."
Paulette Bates Alden