Farnsworth's Classical English Style Quotes

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. Dickens, Great Expectations (1861)”
― Ward Farnsworth, Farnsworth's Classical English Style

“Originality consists in thinking for yourself, not in thinking differently from other people. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)”
― Ward Farnsworth, Farnsworth's Classical English Style

“The minority gives way not because it is convinced that it is wrong, but because it is convinced that it is a minority. Stephen, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity (1873)”
― Ward Farnsworth, Farnsworth's Classical English Style

“Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future. Churchill, speech in the House of Commons (1940)”
― Ward Farnsworth, Farnsworth's Classical English Style

“The French had shown themselves the ablest architects of ruin that had hitherto existed in the world. In that very short space of time they had completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures. Burke, speech in the House of Commons (1790)”
― Ward Farnsworth, Farnsworth's Classical English Style