Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2004/11/24/the_last_word.php
Wednesday, November 24, 2004
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
—Harold Rosenberg
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
—Donald H. Rumsfeld
It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.
—Voltaire
Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.
—Heywood Broun
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
—Oscar Wilde
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
—William Blake
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
—Fritz Kunkel
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving.
—Ulysses S. Grant
Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.
—Edgar Alan Poe
Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the thought his honour is assailed.
—Moliere
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
—Lenin
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober."
—G.K. Chesterton
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
—Daniel Webster
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
—Robert Frost
Learn as much by writing as by reading.
—Lord Acton
Hell is other people.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
—Frank Lloyd Wright
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
—George Washington
The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt
Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.
—Stanley Walker
Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
—Fran Lebowitz
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
—Voltaire
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
—Henry J. Kaiser
I believe that the power to make money is a gift from God.
—John D. Rockefeller
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
—Alfred Hitchcock
Fortune is always on the side of the biggest battalions.
—Marquise de Sevigne
Hanover winters can be as capricious as a Smith girl on a Dartmouth sleigh ride.
—Holiday Magazine, 1948