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"

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration"

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love"

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings"

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much"

"Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke"

"Reflection makes men cowards"

"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else"

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions"

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could"

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts"

"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do"

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so"

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part"

"Learning is its own exceeding great reward"