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“A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.”
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Hesketh Pearson
#Character Quotes
#Men Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“The English public doesn't really like Shakespeare; it prefers football.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1938). “Thinking it Over: The Reminiscences of Hesketh Pearson”
#Soccer Quotes
#Football Quotes
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“Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1971). “Beerbohm Tree; his life and laughter”
#Children Quotes
#Opportunity Quotes
#Games Quotes
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“Do you believe in God? Perhaps you aren't old enough. The reason old people believe in God is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. Moral: don't grow old.”
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Hesketh Pearson
#God Quotes
#Believe Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1926). “The whispering gallery: being leaves from a diplomat's diary”
#Crush Quotes
#Depressing Quotes
#Fate Quotes
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“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”
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Hesketh Pearson
#Men Quotes
#Names Quotes
#Age Quotes
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“Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Common Misquotations introduction (1934)
#Pride Quotes
#Privilege Quotes
#Belief Quotes
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“Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.”
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Hesketh Pearson
#Book Quotes
#Beer Quotes
#Drink Quotes
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“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Common Misquotations introduction (1934)
#Book Quotes
#Beer Quotes
#Pride Quotes
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“There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) ch. 6
#Class Quotes
#Stronger Quotes
#Titles Quotes
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“I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
#Education Quotes
#Thinking Quotes
#Idiot Quotes
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“When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.”
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Hesketh Pearson
Source : Hesketh Pearson (1965). “Hesketh Pearson by Himself. (1. Ed.)”, London : Heinemann
#People Quotes
#Enough Quotes
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