List of Hesketh Pearson Quotes

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Hesketh Pearson
Total Quotes 13
The english public doesn't really like shakespeare; it prefers football.
Soccer Football
Do you believe in god? perhaps you aren't old enough. the reason old people believe in god is because they've given up believing in anything else, and one can't exist without faith in something.... god is a sort of burglar. as a young man you knock him down; as an old man, you try to conciliate him because he may knock you down. moral: don't grow old.
God Believe Men
Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized.
Children Opportunity Modern Youth
An author should be delighted, not annoyed when he hears himself persistently misquoted. he could receive no higher compliment. it proves that the world has frequent and urgent need of his thoughts and will rather change the manner in which he expresses them than do without the things expressed.
Annoyed Needs World
Fate stalks us with depressing monotony from womb to tomb, and, when we are least expecting it, deals us a series of crushing blows from behind.
Crush Depressing Fate
There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.
Class Stronger Titles
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Book Beer Drink
I am inclined to think that one's education has been in vain if one fails to learn that most schoolmasters are idiots.
Success Education Thinking
Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.
Pride Privilege Belief
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. a widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
Book Beer Pride
When people are old enough to know better they are old enough to do worse.
People Enough Knows
[d]on't grow old. with age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. this is an age of very old young men.
Men Names Age
  • Born: February 20, 1887
  • Died: April 9, 1964
  • Occupation: Actor
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