English Portraits
A source page for quotes linked to Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve.
“The greatest of all French critics, and possibly the greatest European critic since Aristotle .”
“What signifies the ladder, provided one rise and attain the end?”
“Since it is necessary to have enemies, let us endeavour to have those who do us honour.”
“There are people whose clocks stop at a certain point in their lives.”
“In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.”