“Having been a journalist for thirty-nine years, I've developed a pretty thick skin.”
Source : "My Book Led To A Man’s Execution" by Pete Earley, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2012. 
“Contemporary literature in the West has shown some signs of ethical change.”
Source : Lafcadio Hearn (2012). “Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn”, p.150, tredition
“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.”
“What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Poet
Edmund Spenser
Poet
John Donne
Poet
John Dryden
Poet
John Gay
Poet
John Milton
Poet
Jonathan Swift
Pamphleteer
Samuel Johnson
Writer
William Wordsworth
Poet
