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Jeremy Clarkson 60
English broadcaster, journalist and writer 1960Related quotes
Vladimir Horowitz, quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

quoted in Harold C. Schonberg, Horowitz: his life and music

“All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner”
Montaigne, Essais, liv. III, chap. viii.—Faugère
The Art of Persuasion
Context: All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation http://books.google.com/books?id=iRBEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA452& pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make.... let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds... it will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.
Source: The Social History of Art', Volume II. Renaissance, Mannerism, Baroque, 1999, Chapter 5. The Concept of Mannerism

Lo cortés no quita lo valiante, y lo valiante no quita lo cortés.”
Burro Genius: A Memoir (2004)

L’exposé des principes généraux d’administration, 1908

As quoted in AWAKE! http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/g201402/watching-the-world/ (February 2014)
2010s, 2014