Famous quotes containing the words foreign, affairs and/or critic:
“Most of our occupations are low comedy.... We must play our part duly, but as the part of a borrowed character. Of the mask and appearance we must not make a real essence, nor of what is foreign what is our very own.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
“All a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)
“The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.”
—Anatole France (1844–1924)