If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. - Inspiquo

Next

Leslie Stephen Quotes

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. - Leslie Stephen

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

- Leslie Stephen

Change Background:

Similar Quotes:

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

'Lone Gunmen' was my first job, and I got a little cocky, thinking I'm brilliant and don't have to work that hard because it comes so naturally.

I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

I'm not going to give up salt and sugar because I want to look like Adriana Lima. But I am going to work out to make myself feel good in my own body.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.

I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.