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A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
LIONEL STRACHEY

When humor is meant to be taken seriously, it's no joke
LIONEL STRACHEY

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, whic...
LYTTON STRACHEY

Discretion is not the better part of biography.
LYTTON STRACHEY

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain...
LYTTON STRACHEY

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, Fran...
LYTTON STRACHEY

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the ...
LYTTON STRACHEY

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is ...
LYTTON STRACHEY

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.
LYTTON STRACHEY

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war -...
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, ...
LYTTON STRACHEY

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
LYTTON STRACHEY

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.
LYTTON STRACHEY

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his...
LYTTON STRACHEY

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their...
LYTTON STRACHEY

The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Franci...
LYTTON STRACHEY

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity;...
LYTTON STRACHEY

Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which i...
LYTTON STRACHEY

The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.
LYTTON STRACHEY

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, ...
LYTTON STRACHEY

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which...
LYTTON STRACHEY

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
LYTTON STRACHEY

It is not the historian's business to be complimentary; it is his business to lay bare the facts of ...
LYTTON STRACHEY My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I'...
LIONEL BLUE

There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
LIONEL MESSI

In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
LIONEL MESSI Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned ...
LIONEL BLUE Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
LIONEL BLUE Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
LIONEL TRILLING

Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin...
LIONEL MESSI

I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr...
LIONEL MESSI Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him...
LIONEL TRILLING I am pleased now that I have lived in a gay as well as a religious ghetto, though it hasn't been...
LIONEL BLUE Good things come, and I'm not just referring to riding the buses.
LIONEL BLUE Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th...
LIONEL TRILLING I was certainly open for something being on the edge of a nervous breakdown, perplexed by my own sex...
LIONEL BLUE Being a Jew is like walking in the wind or swimming: you are touched at all points and conscious eve...
LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
LIONEL TRILLING Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
LIONEL TRILLING We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b...
LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte...
LIONEL TRILLING The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit...
LIONEL TRILLING Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss...
LIONEL TRILLING A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ...
LIONEL TRILLING

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed re...
LIONEL SHRIVER Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
LIONEL TRILLING

I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its to...
LIONEL SHRIVER We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut...
LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti...
LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra...
LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re...
LIONEL BARBER

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI

The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON

Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI

Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
LIONEL JOSPIN

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE

They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas...
LIONEL SHRIVER I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS

I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co...
LIONEL SHRIVER My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING

There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher...
LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING

I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI

The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI

I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING I thought of such Christian inventions as the ghetto and the Jewish badge of shame. The Nazis didn&#...
LIONEL BLUE

For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children acr...
LIONEL MESSI Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
LIONEL HAMPTON

Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there a...
LIONEL MESSI Christianity had two faces which bewildered me - two pictures which didn't fit.
LIONEL BLUE

I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone el...
LIONEL MESSI

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whet...
LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
LIONEL SUGGS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y...
LIONEL RICHIE As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
LIONEL BARBER

You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
LIONEL MESSI Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. Howeve...
LIONEL SUGGS I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
LIONEL HAMPTON Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
LIONEL HAMPTON

You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I belie...
LIONEL MESSI For some years I deserted religion in favour of Marxism. The republic of goodness seemed more attain...
LIONEL BLUE The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dul...
LIONEL JOHNSON Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ...
LIONEL ANDERSON Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, ...
LIONEL ANDERSON We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. The ...
LIONEL ANDERSON I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about...
LIONEL ANDERSON This is our business. It is what we do.
LIONEL ANDERSON The last two years it has been working for us.
LIONEL ANDERSON Business is very good right now.
LIONEL ANDERSON I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensivel...
LIONEL ANDERSON We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-s...
LIONEL ANDERSON There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'D...
LIONEL BARBER I didn't want to be on the losing side. I was fed up with Jewish weakness, timidity and fear. I ...
LIONEL BLUE Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gather...
LIONEL BARBER Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in...
LIONEL RICHIE It was admitted by the early rabbis that the sectarians could be as full of good works as eggs were ...
LIONEL BLUE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and t...
LIONEL RICHIE

Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importa...
LIONEL MESSI

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favou...
LIONEL MESSI All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
LIONEL RICHIE Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him...
LIONEL TRILLING At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincer...
LIONEL BLUE Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament p...
LIONEL BLUE Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'...
LIONEL SOSA

Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life wi...
LIONEL SHRIVER

The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
LIONEL SHRIVER

Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio....
LIONEL SHRIVER

I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't alway...
LIONEL SHRIVER

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
LIONEL SHRIVER

I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which ...
LIONEL SHRIVER

Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
LIONEL SHRIVER

In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainl...
LIONEL SHRIVER

...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have...
LIONEL SHRIVER

Still, I may have been glad to scratch the dry surface of our day-to-day peaceableness the way Viole...
LIONEL SHRIVER I'm motivated. The spirit hits me and I just keep going and don't stop. The more I play, the more I ...
LIONEL HAMPTON [Jazz] went from the classics to ragtime to Dixieland to swing to bebop to cool jazz, . . . But it's...
LIONEL HAMPTON For a Christian, Jesus is the unique and only way that God has fully revealed himself. For a Jew thi...
LIONEL BLUE My father was a journalist for 50 years in Leeds and Fleet Street. I thought about a career in busin...
LIONEL BARBER

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last s...
LIONEL MESSI Early on I saw the repression and idolatry of Stalinism, and when it cracked, I was open to religion...
LIONEL BLUE We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and ...
LIONEL JOSPIN I am not the Prime Minister of French capitalism. I am the Prime Minister of France.
LIONEL JOSPIN Inhuman and barbaric acts were carried out by both sides, even if each side tended for too long to d...
LIONEL JOSPIN an exceptional woman ... who brilliantly gave Russian women a new image.
LIONEL JOSPIN We must lead in a different way, ... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction an...
LIONEL JOSPIN No senior official -- neither the interior minister, nor the defense or justice ministers, nor the p...
LIONEL JOSPIN

I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt wi...
LIONEL SHRIVER

Why would you want to sell millions of people on the illusion that they knew you, when they didn't?
LIONEL SHRIVER Country is bringing in a little rock element... a little '80s element. Melody is king now. But i...
LIONEL RICHIE In the summer of 2009, I modestly predicted that most major news organisations would be charging for...
LIONEL BARBER The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came ...
LIONEL RICHIE Because of my Marxism, I was not into myths or miracles, whether it was the virgin birth, the physic...
LIONEL BLUE For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main pur...
LIONEL BARBER The secular world is more spiritual than it thinks, just as the ecclesiastical world is more materia...
LIONEL BLUE

You can call it innocence, or you can call it gullibility, but Celia made the most common mistake of...
LIONEL SHRIVER The secret is keeping busy, and loving what you do.
LIONEL HAMPTON We talk about what's important to Hispanics: education, family, creating an environment in which...
LIONEL SOSA Half the people in Hollywood are dying to be discovered and the other half are afraid they will be.
LIONEL BARRYMORE Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.
LIONEL BARRYMORE I've got a lot of ham in me.
LIONEL BARRYMORE

Nah, I've always had a great relationship with my two brothers, I have always had their support ...
LIONEL MESSI I believe that we are missing a great opportunity. We as Republicans are not really emphasizing what...
LIONEL SOSA We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b...
LIONEL TRILLING The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather
LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte...
LIONEL TRILLING Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
LIONEL TRILLING The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is exactly the mark of the neurotic that he is posse...
LIONEL TRILLING Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect...
LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. Mature artists steal.
LIONEL TRILLING I've always been crazy about playing.
LIONEL HAMPTON That was a big deal at the time, because no blacks were integrated with whites in anything - not in ...
LIONEL HAMPTON Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.
LIONEL HAMPTON Children are a great comfort in your old age - and they help you reach it faster, too.
LIONEL KAUFFMAN Chicago was jazzy, man, jazzy - they had all the great jazz men.
LIONEL HAMPTON Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood
LIONEL TRILLING This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century...
LIONEL BARRYMORE I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best.
LIONEL ABEL Literature is the human activity that takes the fullest and most precise account of variousness, pos...
LIONEL TRILLING To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is ...
LIONEL BARRYMORE

But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
LIONEL SHRIVER Omnipotence is a status that is fragile at best. By its very own standard meaning of unlimited power...
LIONEL SUGGS

He looks uncomfortable, and in this respect the garb is apt. Kevin is uncomfortable; the tiny clothi...
LIONEL SHRIVER People won't see Imagination in something that doesn't relate to their experience because of their o...
LIONEL SUGGS

Are you chuckling yet? Because then along came you. A big, broad meat eater with brash blond hair an...
LIONEL SHRIVER People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.
LIONEL SUGGS

Beware of what "everybody says".
LIONEL SHRIVER To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teen...
LIONEL BLUE I find the concept of Hell to be more honest than that of everyday life. In Hell, no one can lie to ...
LIONEL SUGGS

Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
LIONEL SHRIVER Intellectuals that approach me, only serve to feeding my intellectualism. Imaginists that approach m...
LIONEL SUGGS

Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER

His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER I can remember when nobody believed an actor and didn't care what he believed.
LIONEL BARRYMORE

That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER consistent affection for his characters is what sets Tolstoy apart. Flaubert is equally “objective...
LIONEL TRILLING

People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief
LIONEL TRILLING

On a personal note, I think it won't be until after I've retired that I'm fully aware of...
LIONEL MESSI I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, perso...
LIONEL SOSA When comparing 100 years of experience to 1, there is a way to close the gap. One must simply unders...
LIONEL SUGGS Experience teaches is such a lovely saying. However, when people try not to make the mistakes of wha...
LIONEL SUGGS Wisdom isn't built on experience; it's built on reason...
LIONEL SUGGS I grew up with the Grand Ole Opry, Dottie West, Conway Twitty, Buck Owens... not realizing it was in...
LIONEL RICHIE

One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.

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