John Morley Quotes (27 Quotes)

Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.

All religions die of one disease - that of being found out

In politics the choice is always between two evils.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

Maxims and aphorisms, let us remember that wisdom is the true salt of literature, and the books that are most nourishing are richly stored with it, and that is the main object to seek in reading books.

He who hates vice hates men.

Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Nature, in her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theater of the tragedy of man.

Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking

You can overdo it, both with men and women, but there clearly is a symptom.

There are some books that cannot be adequately reviewed for twenty or thirty years after they come out.

The proper memory for a politician is one that knows when to remember and when to forget.

A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.

In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost

You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

You will find most books worth reading are worth reading twice.

They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to the subtlety of intellect.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.

A proverb is good sense brought to a point.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.