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"

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

"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 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"

"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"

"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"

"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"

"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world"

"Zeal will do more than knowledge"

"Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room"

"We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love"

"To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue"

"Prejudice is the child of ignorance"

"Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal"

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote"

"Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses"

"Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape"

"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"