“Charity unites us to God... There is nothing mean in charity, nothing arrogant. Charity knows no schism, does not rebel, does all things in concord. In charity all the elect of God have been made perfect.” KnowsMeanDoeHas BeensMadeInspirationFaithPerfectAll ThingsCatholicCharityRebelArrogantSchism Author:Pope Clement I
“My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not easy companions, these intellectuals I was now getting to know. They were overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked magnanimity and often they lacked common courtesy. But they were intellectually energetic and - this particularly attracted me - they were proof against cant.” KnowsMayHas BeensStillsEasyCommonCareersLaysCriticsIntellectProofCompanionArrogantPreparingCantCourtesyEnergeticMagnanimityOverbearingCommon Courtesy Book:The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling Source: The Beginning of the Journey: The Marriage of Diana and Lionel Trilling
“Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.” ThinkingMenHas BeensPoetHeroLonelyMiserableScholarArrogantMinorsMy HeroMarvellous Author:A. E. Housman