John Morley Quotes
-
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
-
No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
-
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
-
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
-
There is a loud cry in these days for clues that shall guide the plain man through the vast bewildering labyrinth of printed volumes.
-
In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
-
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
-
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
-
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
-
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
-
The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
-
There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
-
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
-
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
-
The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
-
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
-
We all know that the besetting danger of Churches is formalism; the besetting danger of State action, of corporate action, is officialism and mechanism; and we all know that it is a drawback to many modern ideals that they rest upon materialism and a soulless secularism.
-
Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
-
He who hates vice hates men.
-
Those who would treat politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other.
-
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.
-
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
-
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
-
Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.