Edward Frederic Benson Quotes

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• When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.
• There's many things in this world that will depress you, and make you good for nothing, if you take them seriously, and that cheer you…
• An idea so luminous flashed across her brain that she almost thought the room had leaped into light.
• The hours of the morning between breakfast and lunch were the time which the inhabitants of Riseholme chiefly devoted to spying on each other.
• ...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and because bathing and basking on…
• Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes…
• Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had…
• Queen Victoria did not regard art, letters, or music as in any way springing from national character: they were something quite apart, elegant decorations resembling…
• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
• Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in…
• Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is…
• There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much…
• The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to…
• Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only…
• To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the…
• What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection…
• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had…
• Young gentlemen with literary aspirations usually start a new university magazine, which for wit and pungency is designed to eclipse all such previous efforts, and…

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