Famous quotes containing the words herbert read, herbert and/or read:
“A man of personality can formulate ideals, but only a man of character can achieve them.”
—Sir Herbert Read (1893–1968)
“True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title, James Spalding, or Charles Budgeon, and the passengers going the opposite way could read nothing at all—save “a man with a red moustache,” “a young man in grey smoking a pipe.””
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)