Brander Matthews famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
-- Brander Matthews

#Intelligence #Educated #Persons
The art of the dramatist is very like the art of the architect. A plot has to be built up just as a house is built-story after story; and no edifice has any chance of standing unless it has a broad foundation and a solid frame.
-- Brander Matthews

#Art #House #Foundation
To be clear is the first duty of a writer; to charm and to please are graces to be acquired later.
-- Brander Matthews

#Grace #Firsts #Charm
A gentleman need not know Latin, but he should at least have forgotten it.
-- Brander Matthews

#Educational #Latin #Gentleman
Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
-- Brander Matthews

#Evil #Giving #Doubt
There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde's plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics.
-- Brander Matthews

#Character #Play #Oscars
In every artist we can perceive a man with both a message and a method. His message may be innate in him, but his method he has to acquire from others.
-- Brander Matthews

#Artist #Men #May
Be brief, be buoyant, and be brilliant.
-- Brander Matthews

#Brilliant
When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.
-- Brander Matthews

#Ideas #Nails #Aids

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
You can never rely on a horse that is educated by fear. There will always be something that he fears more than you. But, when he trusts you, he will ask you, what to do when he is afraid.
Iâ€™m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place.
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing.
Fortunately I didn't get educated because if I'd got educated I'd be an educated fool now.
She's a person; the doctor pronounces her dead, not the news.
I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
I'd never hurt another person.
The power and the potency of music will transcend any one person's opinion about it.
What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

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