SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 48, 24 May 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

i days work, We've been doing too much talking. Now we’re socking them in the nose.Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador to the United States, on hearing of raid on Sylt, * % * AFT is either a plagiarist or a _ revolutionist, -Paul Gaugin. et * * 'T HE artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.-George Jean Nathan. * * * if ’D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land, John Boyle O’Reilly. * BS * Authors and actors and artists and such Never know nothing and never know much. ... Playwrights and poets and such horses’ necks Start off from anywhere, end up at sex. Diarists, critics, and similar roe, Never say nothing, and never say no. People Who Do Things exceed my endurance: God, tor a man that solicits insurance! Dorothy Parker. * x * ~~ one order, Hell would be turned loose on the enemy! With one quick blow, destruction of the enemy would be complete.-Goering before the present war. * * * To? the beer-loving Germans, Hermann is a delight. Besides putting away quantities of champagne, burgundy, hock, whisky, brandy, and _ assorted liqueurs, he quaffs beer by the quart out of huge stone mugs.-Time. * * * HEN a man stops adventuring he stops being an artist. -- Warren Wheelock, American sculptor, 5 * * * ANT, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle’s back, and find them both ingenious.-Arthur J. Balfour. * * 55-3 MOR4iITY is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike,-Oscar Wilde. : 2