Brinkwater Wiltshire Quotes & Sayings

Bradley, I wish I'd understood that stuff you spouted about Hamlet."

"Forget it. No high theory about Shakespeare is any good, not because he's so divine but because he's so human. Even great art is jumble in the end."

"So the critics are just stupid?"

"It needs no theory to tell us this! One should simply try to like as much as one can. — Iris Murdoch

I was fourteen: the world was pain. — Zadie Smith

The universe is gratis. It cannot be earned, nor need it be earned. — David Steindl-Rast

God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion. — William Matthews

But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most. — Peter Davison

Eternal vigilance is the price of sexual confidence. — Lionel Tiger

Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success. — Rachel Kushner

What is it that I'm doing again?"
"You know that already," she said. "You just think that you don't, but you do. It's what you came all this way for. — Emily M. Danforth

All, Pyle? Wait until you're afraid of living ten years alone with no companion and a nursing home at the end of it. THen you'll start running in any direction, even away from that girl in the red dressing-gown, to find someone, anyone, who last until you are through. — Graham Greene

When doctors describe pain as experiencing "discomfort," it's like saying Hiroshima experienced "urban renewal". — Dave Barry

You could tell them why they should hire you so very much better than I could. But they won't listen to you and they'll listen to me. Because I'm the middleman. The shortest distance between two points is not a straight line
it's a middleman. And the more middlemen, the shorter. Such is the psychology of a pretzel. — Ayn Rand

Just figure out what your personal values are then just make those the corporate values. — Tony Hsieh