
In a letter to the Dutch Fauvist painter Father Verkade, 12 June 1938; as quoted in Alexej Jawlensky, Jürgen Schultze; M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1970, p. 54
1936 - 1941
Act IV, scene 6, 8, line 746.
Eunuchus
In a letter to the Dutch Fauvist painter Father Verkade, 12 June 1938; as quoted in Alexej Jawlensky, Jürgen Schultze; M. DuMont Schauberg, Cologne 1970, p. 54
1936 - 1941
“The day's length. If a man has a great deal to put in them, a day will have a hundred pockets.”
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 529
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“I was brought up in a house where there was a great deal of silence.”
Colm Tóibín: writers and their families http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/17/colm-toibin-how-i-killed-my-mother, The Guardian (17 February 2012)
“I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.”
Quote of Turner, c. 1840's; as cited by George Walter Thornbury, in The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume II; Hurst and Blackett Publishers, London, 1862, p. 130
Turner did not appear to be pleased with Mr. Ruskin's superlative eulogies, according to Peter Cunningham
1821 - 1851
Letter 16, 1887, also in Testimonies on Sexual Behavior, Adultery, and Divorce (1989) http://egwdatabase.whiteestate.org/nxt/gateway.dll/egw-comp/section00000.htm/book05997.htm/chapter06009.htm, p. 242