George Will
George Will
George Frederick Willis an American newspaper columnist and political commentator. He is a Pulitzer Prize–winner known for his conservative commentary on politics. In 1986, The Wall Street Journal called him "perhaps the most powerful journalist in America," in a league with Walter Lippmann...
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth4 May 1941
love vanity literature
Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.
truth flavour rough
Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.
wings our-words literature
Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.
business achievement done
No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
thinking literature murder
Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder.
strong circumstances remains
It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.
nature literature privacy
In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.
truth literature easy
Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.
father alphabet ends
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
feelings feeling-lost littles
To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.
past stronger ancestry
Breed is stronger than pasture.
wish literature exclusion
When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
relationship happiness freedom
The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.