Improve

Famous quotes containing the word improve:

“Make ‘em cry. Make ‘em laugh. Make ‘em mad, even mad at you. Stir them up and they’ll love it and come back for more. But for heaven’s sake, don’t try to improve their minds.”
—Robert Rossen (1908–1966)

“If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.”
—Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792)

“Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.”
—Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897)