When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same b…

- George Saintsbury

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races o…

- George Saintsbury

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not …

- George Saintsbury

We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they…

- George Saintsbury

The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.

- George Saintsbury

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.

- George Saintsbury

The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.

- George Saintsbury

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written …

- George Saintsbury

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.

- George Saintsbury