Reade

Famous quotes containing the word reade:

“Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)

“A religion so cheerless, a philosophy so sorrowful, could never have succeeded with the masses of mankind if presented only as a system of metaphysics. Buddhism owed its success to its catholic spirit and its beautiful morality.”
—W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)

“How so ere, my man
Shall reade a piece of virgil, tacitus,
livie, or some better booke to us,
Of which wee’ll speake our minds, amidst our meate;
And Ile professe no verses to repeate:”
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637)