All George Saintsbury Quotes
- Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy. Alcohol
- It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races… Alcoholic
- When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits… Benefits
- One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate,… Absence
- But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. Century
- 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 its… Atmosphere
- But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and… All
- Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. Austen
- To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a… Beyond
- The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in… Affected
- But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in… Began
- The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent… All
- Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. Almost Savage
- Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few… Class
- We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but… Admire