Hesketh Pearson
Hesketh Pearson
Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearsonwas a British actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his popular biographies; they made him the leading British biographer of his time, in terms of commercial success...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionActor
Date of Birth20 February 1887
man obvious pride privilege quotes rather reason
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
annoyed world needs
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.
soccer football
The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.
god believe men
Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.
crush depressing fate
Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.
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I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
pride privilege belief
Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
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There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.