"Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard - both as regards the monuments and the inscriptions. Scarcely a word of true poetry anywhere."

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Source : Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”

Benjamin Jowett

#Feelings Quotes #Taste Quotes #Inscriptions Quotes

“I can't judge the characters I play, because it's for the audience to do. What I can try to do is to understand and embody what were they going through? How did they make the decisions they made? That to me is a more interesting way to approach something, rather than saying this person is a villain and that person is this and - because it's not very interesting to play that anyway.”
“A man needs a friend to share goals with, a woman to share his heart with, and a nation to serve with all of his heart. That's the best life one can live.”
“I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.”
“The highest spiritual quality, the noblest property of mind a man can have, is this of loyalty.”
“Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.”
“The thegn who deems an unjust doom is to lose his thegnship. It is a principle which can be widely applied”

Source : Edward Jenks (1922). “A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919”
“There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience.”
“This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.”

Source : Joanna Baillie (1836). “The separation: a tragedy”, p.173

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