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Maurice Baring
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“In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) first seen 1914 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Outline of Russian Literature (London: Williams and Norgate, 1914/15), Ch. II: "The New Age—Pushkin", p. 81.
“Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) first seen 1908 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Passing By (London: Martin Secker, 1921), "From the Diary of Godfrey Mellor", March 17, 1908; p. 34.
“[T]here is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious, and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) first seen 1922 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Puppet Show of Memory (London: William Heinemann, 1922), Ch. V: "School", p. 70.
“Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) first seen 1929 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Coat Without Seam (1929), Ch. VIII.
“A good play is a play which, when acted upon the boards, makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) first seen 1936 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Have You Anything to Declare? (London: William Heinemann, 1936), p. 285.
“If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: As quoted by Dorothy Parker in Marion Capron, "An Interview with Dorothy Parker", The Paris Review, Issue 13 (Summer 1956).
“I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head, I wish I was dead. In a coffin of lead— With the Wise and the Brave— I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thank God I'm alive In the light of the Sun! It's a quarter to five; Thank God I'm alive! Now the hum of the hive Of the world has begun, Thank God I'm alive In the light of the Sun!”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Here's the lily, here the rose Her full chalice shall disclose; Here's narcissus wet with dew, Windflower and the violet blue. Wear the garland I have made; Crowned with it, put pride away; For the wreath that blooms must fade; Thou thyself must fade some day, Rhodocleia.”
Maurice Baring (1874–1945) said by 1945 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source