Maurice Baring

Maurice Baring (27 April 1874 – 14 December 1945) was a versatile English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent.

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• In Mozart and Salieri we see the contrast between the genius which does what it must and the talent which does what it can.
  • An Outline of Russian Literature (London: Williams and Norgate, 1914/15), Ch. II: "The New Age—Pushkin", p. 81.
  • Baring applies a "contrast" first made by Robert Bulwer-Lytton in Chronicles and Characters (London: Chapman and Hall, 1868), Vol. II, p. 302: "Genius does what it must, and Talent does what it can."

• Lord Saint-Edith said he couldn't understand people thinking Bacon had written Shakespeare's plays. If they said Shakespeare had written the works of Bacon as a pastime he could understand it.
  • Passing By (London: Martin Secker, 1921), "From the Diary of Godfrey Mellor", March 17, 1908; p. 34.

• [T]here 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.
  • The Puppet Show of Memory (London: William Heinemann, 1922), Ch. V: "School", p. 70.

• Whoever one is, and wherever one is, one is always in the wrong if one is rude.
  • The Coat Without Seam (1929), Ch. VIII.

• A good play is a play which, when acted upon the boards, makes an audience interested and pleased. A play that fails in this is a bad play.
  • Have You Anything to Declare? (London: William Heinemann, 1936), p. 285.

• If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it.
  • As quoted by Dorothy Parker in Marion Capron, "An Interview with Dorothy Parker", The Paris Review, Issue 13 (Summer 1956).

Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches (London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1909)

• 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.
  • "Jean François", p. 39.

• Thank God I'm alive
  In the light of the Sun!
  It's a quarter to five;
  Thank God I'm alive!
  Now the hum of the hive
  Of the world has begun,
  Thank God I'm alive
  In the light of the Sun!
  • "Jean François", p. 39.

• Here's the lily, here the rose
  Her full chalice shall disclose;
  Here's narcissus wet with dew,
  Windflower and the violet blue.
  Wear the garland I have made;
  Crowned with it, put pride away;
  For the wreath that blooms must fade;
  Thou thyself must fade some day,
  Rhodocleia.
  • "The Garland", p. 113.

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