In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

- Maurice Baring

There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

- Maurice Baring

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

- Maurice Baring

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

- Maurice Baring

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

- Maurice Baring

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dea…

- Maurice Baring

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

- Maurice Baring

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

- Maurice Baring