#w

My family pride is something inconceivable. I can't help it. I was born sneering. ↗

— William Gilbert

#family #help #i #i was born #inconceivable

And I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. ↗

— William Gilbert

#call #i #i always #myself #never

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance. ↗

— William Gilbert

#blow #bound #chance #enhance #haven

Philosophy is for the few. ↗

— William Gilbert

#philosophy

The House of Peers, throughout the war, did nothing in particular, and did it very well. ↗

— William Gilbert

#house #nothing #particular #peers #throughout

The welfare culture tells the man he is not a necessary part of the family; he feels dispensable, his wife knows he is dispensable, his children sense it. ↗

— George Gilder

#culture #dispensable #family #feels #his

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly. ↗

— Iain Glen

#percentage #regularly #small #spoilt #works

But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master--something that at times strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#writers-on-writing

I want to keep - this seems so corny - I want to keep growing as an artist. ↗

— John Glover

#corny #growing #i #keep #seems

I think we were just coming out and being ourselves, instead of operating within boundaries that other people had created. We decided to do away with those boundaries. ↗

— Michael Giles

#being #boundaries #coming #created #decided