Quote by Gilbert Highet

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

— Gilbert Highet

The art of invective resembles the art of boxing. Very few fights are won with the straight left. It is too obvious, and it…

— Gilbert Highet

The wise teacher knows that 55 minutes of work plus 5 minutes laughter are worth twice as much as 60 minutes of unvaried work.

— Gilbert Highet

The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his…

— Gilbert Highet

Poetry is halfway between prose and music: it is sometimes like an intimate conversation, in words and phrases which need not be fully uttered,…

— Gilbert Highet

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

— Gilbert Highet

“Books are not lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves!”

— Gilbert Highet

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

— Gilbert Highet

History is a strange experience. The world is quite small now; but history is large and deep. Sometimes you can go much farther by…

— Gilbert Highet

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on shelves.”

— Gilbert Highet

Most Americans do not like poetry. We may respect it, but we do not enjoy it.

— Gilbert Highet

Nobody has ever thought himself to death. The chief danger confronting us is not age. It is laziness, sloth, routine, stupidity, - forcing their…

— Gilbert Highet