"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

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"The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party."

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"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."

Art, Power, People, Fancy

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

Work, Country, Englfamine, Machines

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."

Architecture, Church, Emotion, Religious

"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."

Nature, Race

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

Life, Effort

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."

Nature, Work, Humannature, Study

"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

Humanity, Observation

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"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

William R. Alger, American Writer

Sympathy, Reason

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."

Henri Frederic Amiel, Swiss Philosopher

Sympathy, Criticism, First

"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."

Les Aspin, American Politician

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"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

Sympathy, Knowledge, Stress

"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

Irving Babbitt, American Critic

Sympathy, Balance

"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

Aneurin Bevan, Welsh Politician

Sympathy, Altruism

"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."

Harold Bloom, American Critic

Sympathy, Criticism

"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."

Nellie Bly, American Journalist

Sympathy, Kindness, Trouble, World

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

Robert Browning, English Poet

Sympathy, Autumn

"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"

David Chalmers, American Philosopher

Sympathy,

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"There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages."

"There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still."

"Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church."

"The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race."

"If it were a real effort to live in the Middle Ages, your life would be one perpetual prevarication."

"The novelist must ground his work in faithful study of human nature."

"The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation."

"The insular arrogance of the English character is a commonplace joke."

"Rome was great in arms, in government, in law."

"Personality is lower than partiality."

Exlpore more Sympathy quotes

"A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

"Sympathy is the first condition of criticism."

"There's a certain amount of sympathy here for the Bush administration's problem, which is they would like to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they would like to have the Kurds autonomous."

"The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy."

"The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection."

"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

"Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin."

"It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world."

"Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay."

"Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!"