Quote #20

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.

More from John Morley

  1. In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
  2. Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
  3. The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
  4. Literature-the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
  5. There are some books which cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.
  6. The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature-the idea of eternal punishment.
  7. You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
  8. Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

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