George Saintsbury Quotes

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.

George Saintsbury

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 23, 1845 - January 28, 1933

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It became very obvious to me that in the United States of America, a fluffy ethnic disabled chick was never going to get a job unless she did stand-up.

Maysoon Zayid

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My mother came from a very affluent background, very Westernized, while my father was more Eastern. So I've had a very good blend of the East and the West. I guess this has been extremely helpful in making my career and the way I function.

Amitabh Bachchan

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After 'Muriel's Wedding,' I first went to America, and I was sent all these scripts about fat girls overcoming hurdles. Something in me knew not to go down that road, even if it was a good script.

Toni Collette

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I always had this desire to be an entrepreneur, except I felt I didn't really know what I was doing.

Ruzwana Bashir

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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Doc Watson

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I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

Diana Wynne Jones

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We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.

Clint Smith

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These interests of the workers, as the exploited and oppressed, class of society, are the same in all countries.

Clara Zetkin

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I had to get beat to understand how to win.

Bob Beamon

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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.

Allison Pearson

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In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

Woody Allen

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Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

William Howard Taft

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