Critic Quotes

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose.
It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man.
Let the devil catch you but by a single hair, and you are his forever.
Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.
One can drink too much, but one never drinks enough.
The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship.
They make glorious shipwreck who are lost in seeking worlds.
Would that we could at once paint with the eyes! In the long way from the eye through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all.
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them.
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
At Munich we sold the Czechs for a few months grace, but the disgrace will last as long as history.
Most style is not honest enough.
Poetry had far better imply things than preach them directly... in the open pulpit her voice grows hoarse and fails.
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything to do with the older Aristotelian universals in which the idea of a chair subsumes all its individual manifestations.
And this fear that US models are replacing everything else now spills over from the sphere of culture into our two remaining categories: for this process is clearly, at one level, the result of economic domination - of local cultural industries closed down by American rivals.
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, aren't we really referring to the spreading economic and military might of the US?
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