Seymour Hicks famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.
-- Seymour Hicks

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No man knows more about women than I do, and I know nothing.
-- Seymour Hicks

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I always travel first class on a train. It's the only way to avoid one's creditors.
-- Seymour Hicks

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A man does not buy his wife a fur coat to keep her warm, but to keep her pleasant.
-- Seymour Hicks

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Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.
Sawyer was always the Vincent boy worth fighting for. He's the special one.
I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.
In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.
Luckily, I's learned at an early age that self-preservation was the only way to survive with your soul intact.
It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the eye, notwithstanding that the social diagnosis could yield no other verdict than 'rotten to the very core'?
Unchecked, the dominating influences of money and of barren intellectualism would reduce the life of emotions to freezing point. And, unable to grasp the holier benefits of religion, the mysticism of the heart reacts in the art-intoxication. .... In this cold, irreligious and practical age the warmth of this devotion to art has kept alive many higher aspirations of our soul, which otherwise might readily have died, as they did in the middle of the last century.

Seymour Hicks famous quotes

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