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
mistake men genius
Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love.
common mist walks
Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others.
selfish science obligation
Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects.
reading mind done
I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.
reading able hunger
There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger.
art book writing
I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
debt dinner principles
I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.
way offensive habit
Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.
past self sorrow
It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.
names wish eliot
I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot.
running quality safe
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
men ems speech
The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'.
memories self flags
As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
mirrors dust mind
I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.