Robert Baldwin Ross Quotes & Sayings

Telling one's friends to buy a book is a waste of time. One has to produce it from one's pocket and press it into their hands. The least one can hope for is that they'll leave it lying about in their drawing-rooms and talk as though they'd read it. — Robert Baldwin Ross

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth. — Robert Baldwin Ross

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible. — Robert Baldwin Ross

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation. — Robert Baldwin Ross