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british-statesman count learned learning people pocket pull seem time watch wear
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. Lord Chesterfield
british-statesman result
When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace. John Lubbock
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. John Morley
british-statesman sole
I am called repeatedly and insidiously prime and sole minister. Robert Walpole
british-statesman charge impartial permitted plain trial
Wherever they have been arraigned, a plain charge has been exhibited against them. They have had an impartial trial and have been permitted to make their defense.
british-statesman entertain esoteric maintain rugged safest side steep transit unpopular
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.
british-statesman mother silence
When little is done, little is said; silence is the mother of truth. Benjamin Disraeli
british-statesman character greater sure
There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
british-statesman critical critics-and-criticism easier
It is easier to be critical than correct.
literature great-work genre
All great works of literature either dissolve a genre or invent one. Walter Benjamin
literature records discontent
literature is the record of our discontent. Virginia Woolf
literature motto following
To begin with, let us take the following motto...Literature is Love. Now we can continue. Vladimir Nabokov
literature moral censorship
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. William O. Douglas
literature prophet prove
Jesters do often prove prophets. Joseph Addison
literature london able
During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful. George Andrew Olah
literature lasts should
[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. James Russell Lowell
literature merit findings
Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment. Lord Byron
literature stories short-story
The short story is the literature of the nomad. John Cheever