He was a genius. To think all these years on his comedy is still making us laugh [on Charlie Chaplin]
Eddie IzzardThis island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organising genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.
Aneurin BevanWe should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
J B PriestleyGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness
Hannah MoreGenius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
Hannah MoreSometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Carl Gustav JungTalent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
Arthur SchopenhauerGenius is sorrow's child.
John AdamsRules and models destroy genius and art.
William HazlittEvil always turns up in this world through some genius or other.
Denis DiderotNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartPavement slippery, people sneezing,
Lords in ermine, beggars freezing;
Titled gluttons dainties carving,
Genius in a garret starving. (January, 1795)
Mary RobinsonI've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man
Charlton HestonCreative people must entertain lots of silly ideas in order to receive the occasional strokes of genius.
Marshall Cook'Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.'
Charlie ChaplinEvery man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward Bulwer-LyttonThe genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
Walter LippmannFew people can see genius in someone who has offended them
Robertson DaviesA genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
Samuel ButlerI rather like my reputation, actually, that of a spoiled genius from the Welsh gutter, a drunk, a womanizer; it's rather an attractive image.
Richard BurtonCuriosity, or the love of knowledge, has a very limited influence, and requires youth, leisure education, genius and example to make it govern any person
David HumeLiam is a songwriting genius. His songs make me cry 'cause they are better than mine.
Noel GallagherThe distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success
Bruce FeirsteinThe perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervour of genius.
Leigh HuntThe word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Jon TheismanAlmost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
Albert PikeThe man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo EmersonGenius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length.
Christian Nestell BoveeThe principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
Arthur KoestlerThere's no doubt he was in his own way a comic genius. He had this wonderful warmth and humour that came right through the screen and just embraced you. [on Ronnie Barker]
Nicholas ParsonsNature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature
Josiah Gilbert HollandThere is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
Walt WhitmanTalent is that which is in a man's power! Genius is that in whose power a man is.
James Russell LowellNothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common then unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ' press on ' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeIf we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
William HazlittI said, 'Look, I don't care how, who, what, where, when. Sacha Baron Cohen is a genius and I want to be a part of this project.'
Rhona MitriThe elements are cricket's presiding geniuses.
Neville CardusThe divine egoism that is genius.
Mary WebbIndulge, and to thy genius freely give,
For not to live at ease is not to live
PersiusConceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May AlcottNow I think I'm good, but I don't think I'm a genius - Paul Daniels would have a good job here, I tell you.
Kevin BlackwellOne is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.
Simone De BeauvoirIndustry is a better horse to ride than genius.
Walter LippmannIf children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonEvery work of Genius is tinctured by the feelings, and often originates in the events of times
Isaac DisraeliOne of the greatest geniuses that ever existed, Shakespeare, undoubtedly wanted taste.
Horace Walpole Fourth Earl Of OxfordAttention is the stuff that memory is made of, and memory is accumulated genius
James Russell LowellThe difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
Albert EinsteinTaste is the feminine of genius
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