Facts Quote by George Saintsbury

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is…

— George Saintsbury

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any…

— George Saintsbury

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist…

— George Saintsbury

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…

— George Saintsbury

But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you…

— George Saintsbury

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up…

— George Saintsbury

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

— George Saintsbury

I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast.

— George Saintsbury

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write…

— George Saintsbury

Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.

— George Saintsbury

“Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that humor excites in those who lack it.”

— George Saintsbury

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.

— George Saintsbury