"Earnest people are often people who habitually look……" — Van Wyck Brooks
"Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side."
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Van Wyck Brooks
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22 Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks
Van Wyck Brooks has 22 quotes on this site.
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Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
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As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he…
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Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is…
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Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
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No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
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The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
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How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is…
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by…
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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More Earnest Quotes
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So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even if their…
— Walter Bagehot
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
— Dave Barry
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It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
— Chuck Berry
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The first professional play I ever saw was The Importance Of Being Earnest, and I just fell in love.
— Kim Cattrall
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That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
— Winston Churchill
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Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Only engage, and then…
— Jean Anouilh
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There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous,…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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Lord of the springtime, Father of flower, field and fruit, smile on us in these earnest days when the work…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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If you want to sin, sin wholeheartedly and openly. Sins too have their lessons to teach the earnest sinner, as…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found…
— John Lancaster Spalding
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Methinks every true Christian should be exceedingly earnest in prayer concerning the souls of the ungodly; and when they are…
— Charles Spurgeon
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