“Sketching from nature is very like trying to put a pinch of salt on her tail. And yet many manage to do it very nicely.”
Sketching from Nature
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IX - A Painter's Views on Painting
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novelist 1835–1902Related quotes
Source: Aspects of the Novel (1927), Chapter Nine: Conclusion
Context: If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people — a very few people, but a few novelists are among them — are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest is against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.
As quoted in Richard Friedenthal, Letters of the great artists – from Blake to Pollock (Thames and Hudson, London, 1963), p. 40
1800s - 1810s
“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
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Chantal speaking of the cook, Madame Fernande, p. 119
La joie (Joy) 1929
“T is a very fine thing to be father-in-law
To a very magnificent three-tailed Bashaw!”
Blue Beard, Act ii, Scene 5, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
