Edward Dowden 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. Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals.

Stephen Richards

#3. Today, you get better performance from a Ford Focus than a Ferrari from the mid-70s. [The Focus] is just as fast and with better fuel economy. It's fun to see supercar technology trickle down to everyday cars.

Jay Leno

#4. Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains.

Edward Dowden

#5. Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.

Edward Dowden

#6. Here upon the earth evil is such was Shakespeare's declaration in the most emphatic accent. Iago actually exists. There is also in the earth a sacred passion of deliverance a pure redeeming ardor. Cordelia exists.

Edward Dowden

#7. Expand. Why stick to just killing zombies? Or killing them just one way.

Jesse Petersen

#8. I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

Taylor Swift

#9. I haven't done the milestoney things - getting married, buying a house, having children.

Eve Best

#10. For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Edward Dowden