Boast Quote by Aubrey Beardsley Download Open image “No language is rude that can boast polite writers.” — Aubrey Beardsley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Language Polite Rude Writing
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
A writer can have only one language, if language is going to mean anything to him. — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite. — Baron de Montesquieu Copy Share Image
I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for… — Red Smith Copy Share Image
“Reading at meal is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write. — Phoebe Waller-Bridge Copy Share Image
A writer should care about one thing - the language. To write well - that is his duty. That is his only duty. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
A writer is a tool of the language rather than the other way around. — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
Horrible that you could write in a language so well, but have nothing meaningful to say. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
When an Englishman has professed his belief in the supremacy of Shakespeare amongst all poets, he feels himself excused from the general study of… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did -… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I have one aim—the grotesque. If I am not grotesque I am nothing. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
What is a portrait good for, unless it shows just how the subject was seen by the painter? In the old days before photography… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
Advertisement is an absolute necessity of modern life, and if it can be made beautiful as well as obvious, so much the better for… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
“People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.” — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
All humanity inspires me. Every passer-by is my unconscious sitter; and as strange as it may seem, I really draw folk as I see… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a… — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
It takes only one man to make an artist, but forty to make an Academician. — Aubrey Beardsley Copy Share Image
It would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Science appears but what in truth she is, Not as our glory and our absolute boast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop To… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
