Top 14 Edmund Gosse Quotes
#1. The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse, Edward Dowden and George Saintsbury], the greatest critic that ever lived - not an Englishman, but a Frenchman, the wonderful Sainte-Beuve.
Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve
#2. In 1907 Edmund Gosse thought he had to leave his father to become himself; seventy years later Geoffrey Wolff knows he cannot leave his father because he has become his father.
Vivian Gornick
#3. The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
Edmund Gosse
#4. To take revenge halfheartedly is to court disaster; either condemn or crown your hatred.
Pierre Corneille
#5. I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.
Edmund Gosse
#6. Well, it's not a disaster, is it? Man, too, comes to his end, and here we are making a fuss about a clay pot!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#7. Tomorrow we bite
The hand that feeds us today
Either way, we'll eat
Chris Dahlen
#8. I can get any retail buyer on the phone with you and get them to verify that not a single retail location in America where there's a PlayStation 3 on the shelf for sale. They've all been sold in a matter of minutes.
Jack Tretton
#10. You don't have to be crazy to be a writer, but it certainly does help
Mary Jo Putney
#11. The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.
Edmund Gosse
#13. Robert Rotenberg does for Toronto what Ian Rankin does for Edinburgh.
Jeffery Deaver
#14. Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.
Edmund Gosse
