"Expertise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... re-birth of other things besides a taste for round limbs and the science of representing them; we begin to hear again of two diseases, endemic in imperial Rome, from which a lively and vigorous society keeps itself tolerably free—Rarity-hunting and Expertise. These parasites can get no hold on a healthy body; it is on dead and dying matter that they batten and grow fat. The passion to possess what is scarce, and nothing else, is a disease that develops as civilisation grows old and dogs it to the grave: it is saprophytic. ...
— Art • Clive Bell
... Gobertz anon Returneth to Mauleon, To Savaric maketh moan On his knees. Other pray'r hath he none Save this, "Sir, let me begone Whence I came, since fordone My expertise." ...
— Helen Redeemed and Other Poems • Maurice Hewlett |
