
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien
criticizing the Cambridge School of criticism, e.g. John Middleton Murry and Herbert Read, “Fine Writing,” pp. 306-307
Reperusals and Recollections (1936)
“If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.”
Source: The Naked Civil Servant; How To Become A Virgin; Resident Alien
Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah
Inès reiterating to Garcin that they cannot ignore one another, Act 1, sc. 5
No Exit (1944)
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays
“I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.”
An early couplet,quoted in Christian Hymn Writers,(ed Elsie Houghton) Evangelical Press of Wales, Bridgend,Wales 1982 ISBN 0 900898 66 6.
Attributed from postum publications, Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)
“The first symptom is that hair grows on your ears. It's very disconcerting.”
On growing old; op. cit.