“At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
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A Writer's Notebook (1946)
“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”
Othello, Act V, scene ii.
Othello (1603–4)
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“He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.”
Edmund Waller (1606–1687) English poet and politician
Canto III.
Of Divine Love (c. 1686)
Context: He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
Love as he lov'd! — How can we soar so high?—
He can add wings when he commands to fly.
Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;
He that examples gives will give his aid:
For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,
His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.