Act IV, sc. i
The Man of Mode (1676)
“The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.”
Le plus grand défaut de la pénétration n'est pas de n'aller point jusqu'au but, c'est de le passer.
Variant translation: The greatest fault of a penetrating mind is not to fail to attain the mark but to go beyond it.
Maxim 377.
Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims (1665–1678)
“I wanted to produce film songs that go beyond language or culture.”
Original Score
“What a mistake rage is! anger should never go beyond a sneer, if it really desires revenge.”
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.”
Source: To Catch an Heiress
Songfacts interview (2007)
Context: The best part of being a songwriter — beyond being able to make a living at it — is what I call the "heart payment" of a song. That's when somebody comes up after a concert and says, "My mom was a single mom, and 'You And Me Against The World' was a really important song to us." Or "We got married to 'We've Only Just Begun'" or 'Evergreen.' Or "'I Won't Last A Day Without You' got me through some hard times.'" That's heart payment for a songwriter.
Kia Makarechi, "Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac's Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music", http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/03/stevie-nicks-fleetwood-mac-reunion-rihanna-kanye_n_2220029.html Huffington Post, 3 December 2012
“There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.”
“A gentleman is never in a hurry.”
Les silences du colonel Bramble (The Silence of Colonel Bramble)
