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> [Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/alcoholic-drinks-rightly-used-are-good-for-body-and-soul-alike-but-as/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

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## More by George Saintsbury

> [To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/to-pass-to-the-deluge-and-beyond-it-and-to-come-to-close-quarters/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/one-of-the-best-known-and-one-of-the-least-intelligible-facts-of/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/the-transition-state-of-manners-and-language-cannot-be-too-often/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/the-italian-prose-tale-had-begun-to-exercise-that-influence-as-early/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/but-dinner-is-dinner-a-meal-at-which-not-so-much-to-eat-it-becomes/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/but-even-gold-is-not-everything-and-only-a-fanatic-and-a-rather/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/the-hardest-thing-to-attain-is-the-appreciation-of-difference-without/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/i-do-not-think-anything-serious-should-be-done-after-dinner-as/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/but-at-the-time-when-he-wrote-englishmen-with-the-rarest-exceptions/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/oratory-is-after-all-the-prose-literature-of-the-savage/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/nothing-is-more-curious-than-the-almost-savage-hostility-that-humor/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/miss-austen-had-shown-the-infinite-possibilities-of-ordinary-and/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/the-odyssey-is-indeed-one-of-the-greatest-of-all-stories-it-is-the/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/nothing-is-more-curious-than-the-almost-savage-hostility-that-humour/)

[George Saintsbury](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-saintsbury/)

> [The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-saintsbury/the-book-of-history-is-the-bible-of-irony/)

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