Choicer Quotes by Walter Pater

More Quotes by Walter Pater

Walter Pater has 46 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
• In a sense it might even be said that our failure is to form habits: for, after all, habit is relative to…
• What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a…
• That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the…
• She is older than the rocks among which she sits; like the vampire, she has been dead many times, and learned the…
• Art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.
• Through the survival of their children, happy parents are able to think calmly, and with a very practical affection, of a world…
• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate…

See all 46 quotes by Walter Pater »