“The man who satisfies a ceaseless intellectual curiousity probably squeezes more out of life in the long run than anyone else.”
Quotes by Edmund Gosse
“Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.”
“I soon discovered that they were absorbed in a silly kind of amorous correspondence with the girls of a neighbouring academy, but " what were all such toys to me?”
Edmund GosseSir Edmund Gosse was an influential English poet, author, and critic, known for his significant contributions to literature and the arts during the late Victorian era. Raised in the strict confines of...