Quotes by George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

Alcohol

Body

Soul

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

Latin

Men

Writing

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat – it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older – as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice “at the closing of the day”. I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

Flirting

Meals

Thinking

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

Giving

Gold

Style

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Century

Melancholy

Whole

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

Criticism

Endeavour

World

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

Cooking

Food

Thinking

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Beauty

Drinking

Race

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Facts

Rejoice

Thank God

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

Ifs

Majority

Reason

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Flirting

Food

Giving

Gold

Hardest

Humor

Ifs

Irony

Italian

Lateness

Latin

Literature

Majority

Meals

Melancholy

Men

Mind

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Names

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Quotes by George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury

Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.

Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.

Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.

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