“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, admireQuote by George SaintsburyTopics: Quotes about Mankind, Quotes about Thinking, Quotes about WritingShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this...#George Saintsbury
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in...#George Saintsbury
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.#George Saintsbury
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time:...#George Saintsbury
Facts are God's arguments; we should be careful never to misunderstand or pervert them#Brotherhood, #God, #Mankind
