
"Ennui", p. 64
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)
"Ennui", p. 64
Literary and Historical Miscellanies (1855)
“The social and human balance of our societies depend on the farming world.”
Speech to the European Parliament (23 January 1991), quoted in The Times (24 January 1991), p. 13
President of the European Commission
Crabbed Age and Youth.
Virginibus Puerisque and Other Papers (1881)
Context: The time would fail me if I were to recite all the big names in history whose exploits are perfectly irrational and even shocking to the business mind. The incongruity is speaking; and I imagine it must engender among the mediocrities a very peculiar attitude, towards the nobler and showier sides of national life.
"The Art of Living", interview with journalist Gordon Young first published in 1960
Variant: [T]here are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word "happy" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Interview for London Weekend Television's Weekend World, quoted in The Times (11 February 1980), p. 2
1980s