Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright. -Van Wyck Brooks

 

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.


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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

Van Wyck Brooks

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Van Wyck Brooks

A man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them. They like a man who expresses their own superficial thoughts in a manner that appears to be profound. This enables them to feel that they are themselves profound.

Van Wyck Brooks

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

Van Wyck Brooks