Frank Moore Colby Quotes - Page 2

• The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Art, Nature, New York

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• Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Reputation, Fame

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

  Frank Moore Colby

  War, Men, Mind

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Expression, People, Judging

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Book, Reading, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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