Georg Brandes Quotes

Being gifted needs courage.
Georg Brandes

Courage, Needs, Gifted

A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion.
Georg Brandes

Love, Humanity, Compassion

Among the delights of Summer were picnics to the woods.
Georg Brandes

Summer, Among, Woods

Any feeling that I was enriching my mind from those surrounding me was unfortunately rare with me.
Georg Brandes

Mind, Feeling, Rare

He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.
Georg Brandes

Understand, Joke, Danish

I was not afraid of what I did not like. To overcome dislike of a thing often satisfied one's feeling of honour.
Georg Brandes

Feeling, Afraid, Often

Poor is the power of the lead that becomes bullets compared to the power of the hot metal that becomes types.
Georg Brandes

Power, Poor, Hot

Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house.
Georg Brandes

Child, House, Quite

But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
Georg Brandes

Positive, Find, Year

I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself.
Georg Brandes

Strength, Others, Admired

I became an ardent, but never a specially good, dancer.
Georg Brandes

Good, Dancer, Ardent

I came into the world two months too soon, I was in such a hurry.
Georg Brandes

Two, Soon, Months

I did not know what it was to be happy for a whole day at a time, scarcely for an hour.
Georg Brandes

Time, Happy, Whole

I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes

Life, True, Child

I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.
Georg Brandes

Small, Hearing, Thin

I was at home then in the world of figures, but not in that of values.
Georg Brandes

Home, Values, Figures

I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
Georg Brandes

Life, Light, Looking

It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.
Georg Brandes

Mother, Difficult, Please

It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow.
Georg Brandes

Country, Play, Warm

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
Georg Brandes

Good, Friendly, Whole

School is a foretaste of life.
Georg Brandes

That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems.
Georg Brandes

Time, Living, Problems

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.
Georg Brandes

National, Danish, Version

The person upon whom the schoolboys' attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.
Georg Brandes

Person, Attention, Whom

The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
Georg Brandes

Time, Truth, Humanity

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Critic

Born: February 4, 1842

Died: February 19, 1927

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