Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Fun

Men

Successful

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Beautiful

Rainy Day

Writing

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Herbs

Littles

World

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Looks

People

Sides

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Found

Genius

Virtue

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

Motivational

People

Vanity

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

Mind

People

World

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Evil

Jobs

Men

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Profound

Swans

Wells

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Barrels

Organs

Follow The Behaviour University in order to get the greatest quotes from the greatest people of all time so that you can tap into your own greatness.

Ancestry

Barrels

Beautiful

Bent

Book

Country

Creativity

Evil

Family

Firsts

Found

Fun

Funny

Genius

He Man

Herbs

Ignorance

Important

Inspirational

Jealousy

Jobs

Littles

Looks

Mean

Men

Mind

Monopoly

Motivational

Never Forget

Newspapers

Organs

Oxygen

People

Point Of View

Political

Profound

Prowess

Rainy Day

Religious

Roots

Running

Self Esteem

Sides

Standards

Successful

Swans

Talent

Territory

Thinking

Vanity

The Future Blueprint

Tool

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

Tool

The Autobiography

Tool

The Behaviour Diary

Tool

The Dating Diary

Tool

The Relationship Therapist

Tool

Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Better the fragrant herb of wit and a little cream of affability than all the pretty cups in the world.

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

Get Social with TBU

Topics by Van Wyck Brooks

Popular Tools

The Future Blueprint

The Home Therapist: Anti Anxiety

The Autobiography

The Behaviour Diary

The Dating Diary

The Relationship Therapist

Menu

Menu