Maurice Baring famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
-- Maurice Baring

#Rude
If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
-- Maurice Baring

#Thinking #Giving #Looks
In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
-- Maurice Baring

#Genius #Doe #Talent
Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.
-- Maurice Baring

#People #Contradicting
Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
-- Maurice Baring

#Memories #Artist #Mind
There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.
-- Maurice Baring

#Fun #Games #Play
A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
-- Maurice Baring

#Play #Theatre #Boards
I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.
-- Maurice Baring

#Wise #Pain #Brave

The doctrines of the Bible are often not clothed in the language of strict truth, but in that which was fittest to convey to a rude and ignorant people the practical essentials of the doctrine.
Rude interviewers are ten a penny, and politicians have long since learned how to cope.
I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
You must know that when you 'hail' Mary, she immediately greets you! Don't think that she is one of those rude women of whom there are so many-on the contrary, she is utterly courteous and pleasant. If you greet her, she will answer you right away and converse with you!
Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.
Kyoya: I don't like this food. But do you think I'd be so inhuman as to complain after you treated me? That's a rude assumption.
A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.
For me any moment in front of a crowd is embarrassing, because I can't stand being in front of people. I'm probably one of the worst public speakers. I try to avoid it, but there are times when it's just too rude not to do it. But there really isn't a moment that's not embarrassing for me if I'm going to stand up in front of a crowd.

Maurice Baring famous quotes

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