Faculty Rank

Famous quotes containing the words faculty and/or rank:

“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

“... his rank penetrated them as though it had been an odour.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)