English Critic Quotes


293 quotes:

"Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty."
Author: Crowley Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you."
Author: Hazlitt Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening."
Author: Tynan Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one."
Author: Tynan Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Past Quotes
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
Author: Baruch Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket."
Author: Dennis Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Man Quotes
"Discretion is not the better part of biography."
Author: Strachey Quotes Category: Biography Quotes English Critic Quotes
"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding."
Author: Tynan Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"What is reading, but silent conversation."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: Conversation Quotes English Critic Quotes
"A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: Books And Reading Quotes English Critic Quotes
"We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"Asparagus inspires gentle thoughts."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"I love to lose myself in other men's minds."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days."
Author: Lamb Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober."
Author: Tynan Quotes Category: Women Quotes English Critic Quotes
"Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel."
Author: Churton Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
"The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic."
Author: Tynan Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes Complexity Quotes
"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor."
Author: Churton Quotes Category: English Critic Quotes
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