George Augustus Henry Sala famous quotes

03-24-2025

Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Clothes #People #Mind
The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Drama #Play #Tragedy
We acquire the love of people who, being in our proximity, are presumed to know us; and we receive reputation or celebrity, from such as are not personally acquainted with us. Merit secures to us the regard of our honest neighbors, and good fortune that of the public. Esteem is the harvest of a whole life spent in usefulness; but reputation is often bestowed upon a chance action, and depends most on success.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#People #Merit #Honest
The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Beautiful #Future #Flower
In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Kindness #Sacrifice #Opportunity
Make Hamilton Bamilton, make Douglas Puglas, make Percy Bercy, and Stanley Tanley and where would be the long-resounding march and energy divine of the roll-call of the peerage?
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Names #Long #Energy
Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Hats #Boots #Suitors
I will not go so far as to say, with a living poet, that the world knows nothing of its greatest men; but there are forms of greatness, or at least of excellence, which "die and make no sign"; there are martyrs that miss the palm, but not the stake; heroes without the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Hero #Men #Greatness
It is an error to suppose that a man belongs to himself. No man does. He belongs to his wife, or his children, or his relations, or to his creditors, or to society in some form or other.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Children #Men #Errors
Society is the master, and man is the servant.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Men #Society #Masters
Life is a system of relations rather than a positive and independent existence; and he who would be happy himself and make others happy must carefully preserve these relations. He cannot stand apart in surly and haughty egoism; let him learn that he is as much dependent on others as others are on him.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Independent #Would Be #Life Is
How beautifully is it ordered, that as many thousands work for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work neither shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and bear each other's burdens.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Men #Envy #Needs
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Believe #Maturity #Gentleman
There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Men #Ugly #Beard
An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Italian #Men #Two
Almost everything that I behold in this wonderful country bears traces of improvement and reform - everything except Pie.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Country #Pie #Reform
God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other's burdens.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Love #Men #Needs
Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Flower #Play #Ivy
The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Fall #Yellow #Water
England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Hate #Real #Enemy
A woman's character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Character #Eye #Bears
Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.
-- George Augustus Henry Sala

#Ideas #Mind #Paper

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