Art-critics and Secretaries of Art Galleries, frame-makers and all those whose business throws them into constant contact with living artists and their art, know how exactly like their pictures artists always are, their work being immediately expressive of their own fibre, coarse or refined.
"George Du Maurier, the Satirist of the Victorians"
T. Martin Wood
Offices had to be given to gratify members of parliament and their constituents, not to scholars who could write odes on victories or epistles to Secretaries of state.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen
He hasn't named his Secretaries yet, but there isn't much hope for me.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton