John Morley > Quotes

“You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.”
― John Morley, On Compromise

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man”
― John Morley (Viscount Morley)

“where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.”
― John Morley

“Nature, it her most dazzling aspects or stupendous parts, is but the background and theatre of the tragedy of man.”
― John Morley

“Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking.”
― John Morley

“It is worth while to take the pains to find out the best way of doing a given task,.....'to scorn delight and live laborious days' in order to make as sure as we can of having the best opinion.”
― John Morley, On Compromise

“Books worth reading once are worth reading twice; and what is most important of all, the masterpieces of literature are worth reading a thousand times.”
― John Morley

“Success depends on three things: who says it, what he says, how he says it; and of these three things, what he says is the least important.”
― John Morley

“You will find that most books worth reading once are worth reading twice.”
― John Morley

“The modern emancipation will profit us very little if the status quo is to be fastened round our necks with the despotic authority of a heavenly dispensation, and if in the stead of ancient Scriptures we are to accept the plenary inspiration of Majorities.”
― John Morley, On Compromise

“He is not an American, you know--he is America! (Lord Morley's description of TR to Lady Harcourt)”
― John Morley Viscount Morley 1838-1923

“Simplicity of character is no hindrance
to subtlety of intellect.

(Life of Gladstone)”
― John Viscount Morley