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
witty dull deeper
Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?
stars tree golden
The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach.
fate arrows breasts
Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.
men mad monsters
Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other.
violin kind fame
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less.
hero years land
The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes.
hair pitiful fairs
When you see fair hair Be pitiful.
eye resolve betray
A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes.
summer winter wind
Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not.
choices argument indulgence
Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.
love-is air blue
Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue.
book order names
Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents.
kings men royalty
A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.
rain men wind
When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind .