Famous quotes by Critics

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week"

"The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart"

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well"

"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety"

"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy"

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty"

"The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told"

"In art there are tears that lie too deep for thought"

"Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow"

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it"

"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business"

"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about"

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy"

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination"

"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave"

"Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week"

"Those who can command themselves command others"

"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet"

"The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor"

"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature"

"The most learned are often the most narrow minded"

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming"

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may"

"Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food"

"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest"

"To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us"

"To a superior race of being the pretensions of mankind to extraordinary sanctity and virtue must seem... ridiculous"

"Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress"

"Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves"

"The true barbarian is he who thinks everything barbarous but his own tastes and prejudices"