The immediate success of the war poem anthologies ... proved that the war had aroused in a new public an ear for contemporary verse ... There has nev…

- Edmund Gosse

Never, in all my early childhood, did anyone address to me the affecting preamble: 'Once upon a time!' ... I can but think that my parents were in er…

- Edmund Gosse

In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very pulse of moral life. To be maro…

- Edmund Gosse

I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint…

- Edmund Gosse

Never mind whom you praise, but be very careful who you blame.

- Edmund Gosse

The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.

- Edmund Gosse

The past is a funeral gone by.

- Edmund Gosse

The future comes like an unwelcome guest.

- Edmund Gosse