“Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.”

Lecture: The Lost Arts, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to inv…" by Wendell Phillips?
Wendell Phillips photo
Wendell Phillips 23
American abolitionist, advocate for Native Americans, orato… 1811–1884

Related quotes

Northrop Frye photo
Woodrow Wilson photo

“We should not only use all the brains we have but all that we can borrow.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)<!--PWW 29:364-->
1910s
Variant: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow
Context: I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.

Patrick Buchanan photo
Michel De Montaigne photo

“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”

Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Robert Silverberg photo

“Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been.”

Robert Silverberg (1935) American speculative fiction writer and editor

Introduction to New Dimensions 1, edited by Robert Silverberg

Ha-Joon Chang photo
Woodrow Wilson photo

“I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow, and I have borrowed a lot since I read it to you first.”

Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)

Speech to the National Press Club http://books.google.com/books?id=8gLmAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA439 (20 March 1914)
1910s

Mao Zedong photo

“All the rest of the world uses the word "electricity." They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

Quoted in Khrushchev Remembers (1970), p. 474

Elizabeth Berg photo

“Anything we have, we are only borrowing. Anything. Any time.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: True to Form

Related topics