Georg Brandes Quotes

• When I was a little boy I did not, of course, trouble much about my appearance.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Appearance

• The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Interest

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Humanity

  Tags in Inheritance

• The person upon whom the schoolboys’ attention centred was, of course, the Headmaster.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Schoolboy, Attention

• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  Georg Brandes

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  Tags in National, Version, Cheerfulness

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

  Georg Brandes

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  Tags in Literature, Debates, Problems

• Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to anybody at school.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in School, Discipline

• School is a foretaste of life.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in School

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Poor

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

  Georg Brandes

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  Tags in Friendly, World

• My first experiences of academic friendship made me smile in after years when I looked back on them. But my circle of acquaintances had gradually grown so large that it was only natural new friendships should grow out of it.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Experience, Friendship

  Tags in Academic

• My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Self, Competition

• Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Great, Warrior, Imagination

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Happy

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Mother

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Self

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Feeling, Honour

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in World, Figures

• I was always hearing that I was pale and thin and small.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self

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

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Plants, Animals

Georg Brandes (34)

Birth:	4th February, 1842
Death:	19th February, 1927
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Critic

About

Georg Morris Cohen Brandes was a Danish critic and scholar who had great influence on Scandinavian and European literature from the 1870s through the turn of the 20th century. He is seen as the theorist behind the "Modern Breakthrough" of Scandinavian culture. At the age of 30, Brandes formulated the principles of a new realism and naturalism, condemning hyper-aesthetic writing and fantasy in literature.

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