I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Political history is far too criminal to be a fit subject of study for the young. Children should acquire their heroes and villians from fiction.
Look if you like, but you will have to leap.
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser and more intelligent than his readers.