The Archive · 1938

Sayings from Home

I 4M too modest a man to Sir Andre.—M.

Andre laurels. w Welshmen-r of Manchester. d gentlemen.—The Lord suppose I am here as the next best thing after Shakespeare—Mr G. B. Shaw at the opening of the National Memorial Theatre.

The Royal Academy can now be seen in all its gigantic platitude—Mr. Wyndham Lewis.

To tax and to please is no more given' to man than to love and be wi John Simon.

I know I shall cease to benefit front the general superstition that R.A, means Real Artist.—Mr. Augustus John, We English are very susceptible to righteous indignation, and too often its expression only engenders unrighteous indignation in others Prof. G. M. Trevelyan, In history the inspiration of artists has been noi women, but first food, then. fear, then religion.—Mr. C. R. W. Nevinson.

This unholy mess of muddle and congestion called London—Sir Raymond Unwin, It is a terrible reflection on our education authorities that some 800 policemen are now employed in four counties to teach road users good manners—Col Sir Herbert Bryan.—"Observer."

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