16 Quotes by George Augustus Henry Sala

Beauty is a fairy; sometimes she hides herself in a flower-cup, or under a leaf, or creeps into the old ivy, and plays hide-and-seek with the sunbeams, or haunts some ruined spot, or laughs out of a bright young face.

Thought engenders thought. Place one idea on paper, another will follow it, and still another, until you have written a page; you cannot fathom your mind. There is a well of thought which has no bottom; the more you draw from it, the more clear and fruitful it will be.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

An Italian proverb says, In men every mortal sin is venial; in woman every venial sin is mortal. And a German axiom, that There are only two good women in the world: one of them is dead, and the other is not to be found.

Society is the master, and man is the servant.

The tragedy of “Hamlet” is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of “Hamlet” is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

A woman’s character is as delicate as her eye; it can bear no flaw.

God has ordered, that men, being in need of each other, should learn to love each other, and to bear each other’s burdens.

England is surrounded by enemies-by real enemies who hate her. Why? Because she tries to be honest; and she tries to be free.