4 Quotes by James Kenneth Stephen

Republic of the West, Enlightened, free, sublime, Unquestionably best Production of our time.

To see Good Tennis! What divine joy Can fill our leisure, or our minds employ? Let other people play at other things; The King of Games is still the Game of Kings.

In short, if your body or mind Or your soul or your purse come to grief, You need only get drunk, and you’ll find Complete and immediate relief.

Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.