Best Georg Brandes Quotes
- Being gifted needs courage. Courage
- I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour. Afraid
- Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types. Becomes
- I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small. Always Hearing
- I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light. Given
- It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother. Dawned
- My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old… Astonishing
- The crowd will follow a leader who marches twenty paces ahead of them, but if he is a thousand paces ahead of them, they will… Ahead
- I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values. Figures
- On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not. Chiefly
- Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the… Active
- The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness. Cheerfulness
- The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them. Boxes