Maurice Baring
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Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent.
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Quotes
[edit]- In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
- An Outline of Russian Literature (London: Williams and Norgate, 1914/15), Ch. II: "The New Age—Pushkin", p. 81.
- Baring applies a "contrast" first made by Robert Bulwer-Lytton in Chronicles and Characters (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868), Vol. II, p. 302: "Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."
- Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.
- Passing By (London: Martin Secker, 1921), "From the Diary of Godfrey Mellor", March 17, 1908; p. 34.
- [T]here 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.
- The Puppet Show of Memory (London: William Heinemann, 1922), Ch. V: "School", p. 70.
- Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
- The Coat Without Seam (1929), Ch. VIII.
- A good play is a play which, when acted upon the boards, makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
- Have You Anything to Declare? (London: William Heinemann, 1936), p. 285.
- If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it.
- As quoted by Dorothy Parker in Marion Capron, "An Interview with Dorothy Parker", The Paris Review, Issue 13 (Summer 1956).
Orpheus in Mayfair (1909)
[edit]- Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches (London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909)
- 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 dead,
And lay deep in the grave.- "Jean François", p. 39.
- Thank God I'm alive
In the light of the Sun!
It's a quarter to five;
Thank God I'm alive!
Now the hum of the hive
Of the world has begun,
Thank God I'm alive
In the light of the Sun!- "Jean François", p. 39.
- Here's the lily, here the rose
Her full chalice shall disclose;
Here's narcissus wet with dew,
Windflower and the violet blue.
Wear the garland I have made;
Crowned with it, put pride away;
For the wreath that blooms must fade;
Thou thyself must fade some day,
Rhodocleia.- "The Garland", p. 113.
External links
[edit]- Works by Maurice Baring at Project Gutenberg
- Catholic Authors Biography by Joseph Pearce
- DomingoPortales.Blogspot Biography by joseph Pearce Translated to Spanish