Lord Edward FitzGerald quotes

“Taste is the feminine of genius.”
-- Lord Edward FitzGerald

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“Leinster House does not inspire the brightest ideas.”
-- Lord Edward FitzGerald

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“A Fool can become a Genius when he understands he is a Fool but. A Genius can become a Fool when he understands he is a Genius.”

“Man is a genius when he dreams. Dream what you are capable of. The harder you dream it, the sooner it will come true.”

“The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.”

“I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.”

“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan

“An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.”

“Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.”

“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”

“I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.”

“While men represent powerful activity as assertion and aggression, women in contrast portray acts of nurturance as acts of strength.”

Source : Carol GILLIGAN (2009). “In a Different Voice”, p.128, Harvard University Press