George Saintsbury Quotes
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Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
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The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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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.
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
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I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.
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Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.