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Quotes by "George Saintsbury"

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
— George Saintsbury
Tags: circumstances, influence, growth, time
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much.
— George Saintsbury
Tags: care, will, debate, mind
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
— George Saintsbury
Tags: eighteenth, century, whole, melancholy
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
— George Saintsbury
Tags: wisest, way, history, best
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