Quotes by Smyth, Dame Ethel

Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I >>

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it beh >>

Quotations about Quotations

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote som >>

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. >>

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and obs >>

The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

Smyth, Dame Ethel