Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Intelligence, Intellectuals
You oughtn’t to yield to temptation. Well, somebody must, or the thing becomes absurd.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Temptation
In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding.
—Anthony Hope
Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Ignorance
Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something which you probably won’t want.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Economy
His foe was folly and his weapon wit.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Wit, Weapon, One liners
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Youth
A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
—Anthony Hope
Topics: Books, Reading
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Max Beerbohm British Humorist
- Arthur Wing Pinero English Playwright
- Edward Lear English Humorist, Illustrator
- John Galsworthy English Novelist, Playwright
- Beatrix Potter British Children’s Author
- John Keats English Poet
- Charles Dickens English Novelist
- Jackie Collins English Romance Novelist
- Douglas Adams British Author
- Raymond Chandler American Novelist
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