John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby quotes

“Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.”
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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“We like the gift when we the giver prize.”
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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“Love is the salt of life.”
-- John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby

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“Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact.”

“I can write better than anyone who can write faster,”

“If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.”

“The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.”

“They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained ...”

“Throughout history, government has proved to be the chief instrument for thwarting man's liberty.”

“Liberty's chief foe is theology.”

“There's always time for one more pint. - Chief Inspector Morse”

“I feel very privileged indeed to be appointed to be the next Chief Rabbi.”

“I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.”

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1824). “Letters on the Character and Poetical Genius of Lord Byron”, p.340