Hesketh Pearson

[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a…

— Hesketh Pearson

Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes…

— Hesketh Pearson

When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

— Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious…

— Hesketh Pearson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

— Hesketh Pearson

The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

— Hesketh Pearson

An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that…

— Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

— Hesketh Pearson

I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

— Hesketh Pearson

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

— Hesketh Pearson

A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which had not…

— Hesketh Pearson

Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of…

— Hesketh Pearson

Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up…

— Hesketh Pearson