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George Saintsbury
14 quotes
“In the sect – fairly large and yet unusually choice – of Austenians or Janites, there would probably be found partisans of the claim to primacy of almost every one of the novels.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) first seen 1894 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Preface to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (London: George Allen, 1894) p. ix
“[It] is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Notes on a Cellar-Book (1920; Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) p. 32
“But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat — it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older — as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1922) p. 31
“Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) first seen 1924 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Last Scrap Book (London: Macmillan, 1924) p. 42
“The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.
“We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I wish that I could save myself constant repetition by printing across the dog's-ear place of these pages the warning, "Never judge a critic by your agreement with his likes and dislikes.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.”
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) said by 1933 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source