6 E. F. Benson Quotes for You to Enjoy

E. F. Benson

English Novelist

Born: Jul 24, 1867

Died: Feb 29, 1940

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Romance is a bird that will not sing in every bush, and love-affairs, however devoted the sentiments that inspire them, are often so business-like in the prudence with which they are conducted, that romance is reduced to a mere croaking or a disgusted silence. E. F. Benson

Silence Inspire Bird Will Every Mere Sing Devoted Reduced However Prudence Often Romance Disgusted Which Them Bush Sentiments

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide. E. F. Benson

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All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives. E. F. Benson

Me Learning Intelligence Sunshine Language Sky Possessed Vividly Directly Never Had Failed Days Make Always Been Any Grey Regards Teaching Ever Earlier Received Apply

The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave. E. F. Benson

Health Man Too Much Greedy Too Eats He Knowing Gourmet His Vice Which Much Bodily Who Thereby Injuring Slave

Rightly or wrongly, the Victorian considered that there were certain subjects which were not meet for inter-sexual discussion, just as they held that certain processes of the feminine toilet, like the powdering of the nose and the application of lipstick to the mouth, were (if done at all) better done in private. E. F. Benson

Better Mouth Meet Considered Rightly Like Wrongly Feminine Private Were Subjects Discussion Lipstick Done Just Nose Which Processes Victorian Held Certain Toilet Application

There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions. E. F. Benson

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