7 Quotes by Edmund Gosse

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

The past is a funeral gone by.

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.