Sir Joshua Quotes
- Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of transcendent achievement. Few… — B. C. Forbes
- On Sir Joshua Reynolds's observing that the real character of a man was found out by his amusements. Yes, Sir, no man is a hypocrite… — Samuel Johnson
- Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this,… — George Eliot
- His hypothesis goes to this - to make the common run of his readers fancy they can do all that can be done by genius,… — William Hazlitt