Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

1625 Essayist Quotes

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

Attain Eating Ever Form
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.

Truly New Criticism Art
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

Counsel Fabric Life Real
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Idea Share Good Beauty
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Ground Past Theatre Cities
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
Shock Affect Gifts Point
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The adjustment of reality to the masses and of the masses to reality is a process of unlimited scope, as much for thinking as for perception.

Reality Scope Process Adjustment
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Approach Baby Book Cannibal
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

Public Opinion Judging Attitude
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

True Instant Picture Image
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.

Textile Built Woven Composed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

Able Aware Become Fright
  Favorite Make wallpaper
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
Books Public Quarrels
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

Hope Knowing Love Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Given Hope Only Sake
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

Interest Judgments Matter Only
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The construction of life is at present in the power of facts far more than convictions.

Power Life Facts Present
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.

Conquers Destruction Ecstasy Frenzy
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Truth Dying Wisdom Art
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Away Bird Boredom Dream
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
  Favorite Make wallpaper

He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Anomaly Bell Difficult Dinner
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Woman absent is woman dead.

Absent Dead Woman
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honor Long Prevails
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Admiring Cure House Look
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
  Favorite Make wallpaper

No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Spectacle Agent Simply Also
  Favorite Make wallpaper

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
  Favorite Make wallpaper

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Victims Women Advances Become
  Favorite Make wallpaper

In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
  Favorite Make wallpaper
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Days Laughter Most Wasted
  Favorite Make wallpaper

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Become Courage Grow Grow Up
  Favorite Make wallpaper