Jacques Barzun Quotes

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty mor...

What we ask of a writer in the first place is a unique voice. We ask for the rest later, and we may ...

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligenc...

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that fi...

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twen...

In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appea...

Teaching is not a lost art but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not a...

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realiti...

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a ...

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

The test and the use of man's education is that he finds pleasure in the exercise of his mind.

Whoever wants to know the hearts and minds of America had better learn baseball.

The root difficulty in all cases was the state of being blind and deaf to words-- not seeing the wor...