Un Art de Vivre (The Art of Living) (1939), The Art of Leadership
“Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.”
Rien ne rehausse l'autorité mieux que le silence, splendeur des forts et refuge des faibles.
in Le Fil de l'épée.
Writings
“When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened.”
Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.
Book IV, 35.
Annals (117)
"Intense Ornate" interview with Amazon.co.uk (1999) http://www.elizabethhand.com/interview99.shtml
Context: So much fantasy relies on the author's having read Fraser's The Golden Bough or Robert Graves' The White Goddess and nothing else. The White Goddess is a crank book, a crank book of genius of course, but all the same... Mind you, I found Waking the Moon cited in an article in a pagan magazine as an authority for the idea that there was a patriarchal brotherhood, the Benandanti, that have been running things since antiquity, with no mention of the fact that it is a novel, and a fantasy at that. People want to believe something, and so they swallow anything.
“Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.”
“When a woman who has much to say says nothing, her silence can be deafening.”
"Authors", p. 68.
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought (1862), Volume I
