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  • An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. He could receive no higher compliment. It proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.

    Annoyed   Needs   World  
  • A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

    Character   Men   Age  
  • [D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.

    Men   Names   Age  
  • The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.

    Hesketh Pearson (1938). “Thinking it Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson”
  • When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.

    People   Enough   Knows  
    Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
  • Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.

    Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”
  • Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

    Book   Beer   Pride  
    Common Misquotations introduction (1934)
  • I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.

    Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
  • Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.

    Crush   Depressing   Fate  
    Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”
  • There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

    Class   Stronger   Titles  
    The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6
  • Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.

    God   Believe   Men  
  • Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

    Book   Beer   Drink  
  • Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

    Common Misquotations introduction (1934)
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