Famous quotes containing the words english and/or prose:
“The English are a nation of consummate cant.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce great poetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)