Egerton Brydges quotes

“To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.”
-- Egerton Brydges

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“The glory dies not, and the grief is past.”
-- Egerton Brydges

Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. p. 313-14, On the Death of Sir Walter Scott, 1922.

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“He who is lord of himself, and exists upon his own resources, is a noble but a rare being.”
-- Egerton Brydges

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges (1834). “The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart”, p.47

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

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

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“There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.”
-- Egerton Brydges

Source : Sir Egerton Brydges, Robert Pearse Gillies (1813). “The Ruminator: containing a series of moral, critical, and sentimental essays”, p.143

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“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”

“If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently”

Source : FaceBook post by Aaron Scheidies from Mar 27, 2014

“If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.”

“You have to enjoy your job; you should wake up every day and love what you do... I honestly do... From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul. I'm truly happy.”

“I sold my soul to the devil in L.A”

Source : Song: Country Boy, Album: Town Line, 2011

“Sensual is being in tune with your sensual self.”

Source : "Aaliyah Talks About Her Parents And Her Sensuality". MTV News Interview, www.mtv.com. April 4, 1997.

“It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.”

“It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.”

“I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.”

“I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.”