Top 8 Quotes & Sayings by Maurice Baring

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English novelist Maurice Baring.

Last updated on November 7, 2024.

Maurice Baring was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force.

English - Novelist | April 27, 1874 - December 14, 1945

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There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

Maurice Baring

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

Maurice Baring

In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.

Maurice Baring

A good play is a play which when acted upon the boards make an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.

Maurice Baring

I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.I've a pain in my head,I wish I was dead.In a coffin of lead-With the Wise and the Brave-I wish I was dead,And lay deep in the grave.

Maurice Baring

Avoid contradicting in general, especially people you love.

Maurice Baring

Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.

Maurice Baring

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.

Maurice Baring