Welcome to Question.com Skip directly to: Search Box, Site Navigation, Content.
Van Wyck Brooks Quotes
It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
|
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
|
Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.
|