Quotes by Jacques Barzun

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper...

#Age

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more...

#Writers

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that...

#Injustice, #Judgement, #Morality

Take a portion of wit, And fashion it fit, Like a needle, with point and...

#Fashion

Always old-fashioned

#Fashion, #Rules

Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti

#Fashion

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the...

#Jacques Barzun

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

#Intellectuals

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

#Jacques Barzun

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or...

#Jacques Barzun

Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred.

#Jacques Barzun

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy.

#Jacques Barzun