English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Pater: 'Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Pater: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I don't like allegories.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.' Read More English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.' Read More Newer Posts Older Posts
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Pater: 'Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Pater: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'A friend of mine tells that I talk in shorthand and then smudge it.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'I don't like allegories.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 J. R. R. Tolkien: 'It may be the part of a friend to rebuke a friend's folly.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.' Read More
English Authors 11/21/23 English Authors 11/21/23 Walter Bagehot: 'Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.' Read More