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
promise lovely ruins
Lovely promise and quick ruin are seen nowhere better than in Gothic architecture.
art imagination demand
Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.
fighting men opposites
To fight is a radical instinct; if men have nothing else to fight over they will fight over words, fancies, or women, or they will fight because they dislike each other's looks, or because they have met walking in opposite directions.
free-gifts miracle moments
Existence is a miracle, and, morally considered, a free gift from moment to moment.
despair fundamentals matter
If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.
feelings moral strongest
The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.
children eye men
With an artist no sane man quarrels, any more than with the colour of a child's eyes.
children and-love natural
Children are natural mythologists: they beg to be told tales, and love not only to invent but to enact falsehoods.
important world body
What is more important in life than our bodies or in the world than what we look like?
beauty honored
All beauties are to be honored, but only one embraced.
pleasure barbarism
Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.
affinity great-bond dislike
It is a great bond to dislike the same things.
real intuition criticism
Tomes of aesthetic criticism hang on a few moments of real delight and intuition.
long advice beard
Beware of long arguments and long beards.