Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Henry Arthur Jones

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English dramatist Henry Arthur Jones.
Last updated on April 16, 2025.
Henry Arthur Jones

Henry Arthur Jones was an English dramatist, who was first noted for his melodrama The Silver King (1882), and went on to write prolifically, often appearing to mirror Ibsen from the opposite (conservative) viewpoint. As a right-winger, he engaged in extensive debates with left-wing writers such as George Bernard Shaw and H.G. Wells.

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.
Crises in themselves are highly educational.
The prettier. Now fight for it. — © Henry Arthur Jones
The prettier. Now fight for it.
Beauty itself soon fades, and when a woman has beauty and nothing else, well, it's like putting all the goods in the shop window, isn't it? And the moment she loses her good looks-poor creature! what is she? Just a mere bit of faded finery to be thrown aside.
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.
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