"Your function as a critic is to show……" — Stephen Potter
"Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the time, and since you hadn't you are glad that someone else had, although obviously it might have been done better."
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11 Quotes by Stephen Potter
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Remember the basic rule. Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you. How true this…
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Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are…
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Talk of the imperial decay of your invalid port. Its gracious withdrawal from perfection, keeping a hint of former majesty…
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In lawn tennis mixed, the basic chivalry move is to pretend to serve less fiercely to the woman than to…
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Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also…
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Cogg would suddenly stand stock still. "Listen," he would say. Some feeble quack would be heard from the willow beyond…
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Make friends with your caddie and the game will make friends with you.
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If your friend says of some picture, Yes, but what does it mean? ask him, what his carpet means or…
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In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond 'no comment' with…
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A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the taste, and vice versa.
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