["I have always held a decided opinion that the less people trouble
themselves about literature the better for them."--_M. PIERRE LOTI_
(vide "_Daily Chronicle._")]
_Sir THOMAS LIPTON._ How can a tea-drinking people hope to lift the Cup?
Tannin is a poison fatal to the true sportsman.
_The CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER._ The interest taken in politics
diverts attention from everything that really matters.
_The POET LAUREATE._ Poetry is not only a drug on the market, it is a
drug that narcotises and debilitates all true manhood.
_Mr. EUSTACE H. MILES._ Vegetarianism is fit only for pigs. The noble
king of the forest is a meat-eater.
_Lord ROBERTS._ The military bias is the only obstacle to peace.
_Mme. CLARA BUTT._ The human voice was given us for fish-hawking and
encouraging football-players, not for singing.
_Sir H. BEERBOHM TREE._ I cannot think why anyone goes to the theatre.
It bores me horribly.
_Mr. H. G. WELLS._ The past alone possesses interest for intelligent
men.
_Mr. G. K. CHESTERTON._ Orthodoxy, it has been said, is my doxy;
heterodoxy is other people's doxy; but paradoxy is the devil's doxy.
_Sir E. ELGAR._ Music? How can any serious man fiddle while Home is
burning?
_Sir E. J. POYNTER._ The Royal Academy is crushing the life out of
English Art. The country's only hope is in Cubism.
_Signor MARINETTI._ Your Royal Academy is the true Temple of Art. I
never cross its threshold without first removing my sandals.
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