Author: Van Wyck Brooks

Quotes

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

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

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.

- Van Wyck Brooks

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.

- Van Wyck Brooks

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

- Van Wyck Brooks

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