“Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.”

Source: The Reader Over Your Shoulder (1943), Ch. 3: "Where Is Good English to Be Found?"
Context: Where is good English to be found? Not among those who might be expected to write well professionally. Schoolmasters seldom write well: it is difficult for any teacher to avoid either pomposity or, in the effort not to be pompous, a jocular conversational looseness. The clergy suffer from much the same occupational disability: they can seldom decide whether to use "the language of the market-place" or Biblical rhetoric. Men of letters usually feel impelled to cultivate an individual style — less because they feel sure of themselves as individuals than because they wish to carve a niche for themselves in literature; and nowadays an individual style usually means merely a peculiar range of inaccuracies, ambiguities, logical weaknesses and stylistic extravagancies. Trained journalists use a flat, over-simplified style, based on a study of what sells a paper and what does not, which is inadequate for most literary purposes.

Source: On Love

Original: (it) Buongiorno a chi osa, a chi non si stanca, a chi non molla mai.
Source: prevale.net

Variant: The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

Nītiśataka 74; translated by B. Hale Wortham
Śatakatraya

Quoted in Frances Stevenson's diary entry (12 December 1919), A. J. P. Taylor (ed.), Lloyd George: A Diary (London: Hutchinson, 1971), p. 192.
Prime Minister

Act 5, sc. 3
Dirty Hands (1948)