Quote #22
Literature-the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
More from John Morley
- Excess of severity is not the path to order. On the contrary, it is the path to the bomb.
- The most frightful idea that has ever corroded human nature-the idea of eternal punishment.
- 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.
- Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
- In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
- A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
- The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
- The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.