I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day..., and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give us that grand word "woman" once again, And let's have done with "lady"; one's a term... Full of fine force, strong, beautiful, and firm, Fit for the noblest use of tongue or pen; And one's a word for lackeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog,... Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody c...an say. But to sacrifice a hair of the head of your vision, a shade of its colour, in deference to some Headmaster with a silver pot in his hand or to some professor with a measuring-rod up his sleeve, is the most abject treachery, and the sacrifice or wealth and chastity, which used to be said to be the greatest of human disasters, a mere flea-bite in comparison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a subject is highly controversial ... one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whatever opin...ion one does hold. One can only give one's audience the chance of drawing their own conclusions as they observe the limitations, the prejudices, the idiosyncrasies of the speaker.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »