Augustine Birrell Quotes

Augustine Birrell — English Author born on January 19, 1850, died on November 20, 1933

Augustine Birrell KC was an English Liberal Party politician, who was Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1907 to 1916. In this post, he was praised for enabling tenant farmers to own their property, and for extending university education for Catholics. But he was criticised for failing to take action against the rebels before the Easter Rising, and resigned. A barrister by training, he was also an author, noted for humorous essays... (wikipedia)

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

History is the great dust-heap... a pageant and not a philosophy.

Augustine Birrell Quotes

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