Reade

Famous quotes containing the word reade:

    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)

    There is a certain class of people who prefer to say that their fathers came down in the world through their own follies than to boast that they rose in the world through their own industry and talents. It is the same shabby-genteel sentiment, the same vanity of birth which makes men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.
    —W. Winwood Reade (1838–1875)

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