Maurice Baring Quotes

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.