Patrons Quotes
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The stage but echoes back the public voice. The drama's laws the drama's patrons
give, For we, who live to
please, must please to live.
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More Patrons Quotes
Mere bashfulness without merit is awkward; and merit without modesty, insolent. But modest merit has a double claim to acceptance, and generally meets with as many patrons as beholders.
joseph addison— No. 231 (24 November 1711).
There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons.
— 1915 In Country Life, 8 May.
Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers. ... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.
gilbert keith chesterton— pp. 15-17 (The Great Minimum)
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Henry James— "Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865)
No political truth is certainly of greater intrinsic value, or is stamped with the authority of more enlightened patrons of liberty, than that on which the objection is founded. The accumulation of all powers, Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
james madison— Federalist No. 47 (1788-01-30) [8]
The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live.
— Samuel Johnson, Prologue. Spoken by Mr. Garrick on Opening Drury Lane Theatre. (1747) line 53.
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
— "Essays in Criticism by Matthew Arnold," North American Review (July 1865)
Human paint, produce films and videos; they dance, dream and make music; they engage in political action, exchange goods, perform rituals, build houses start wars, act in plays, try to please patrons- and so on... They contain patterns, press the practitioners to "conform" and in this way mold their thought, their perception, their actions, and their discriminative abilities.
paul karl feyerabend— pg 28 (Conquest of Abundance (2001 [posthumous]))
