John Churton Collins
John Churton Collins (26 March 1848 – 15 September 1908) was a British literary critic.
Quotes
[edit]- To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
- Quoted in L. C. Collins, Life and Memoirs of John Churton Collins (1912), p. 316
Quotes about John Churton Collins
[edit]- Churton Collins ... was certainly not the man to grow enthusiastic over every " new thing " that might might loom above the literary horizon. He more often confronted novelty from the peak of Ebal than of Gerizim. Yet it was Churton Collins who alligned Stephen Phillips with Dante and Milton, and declared that " no poet has made his début with a volume which is at once of such extraordinary merit and so rich in promise."
- Arthur Waugh, "Stephen Phillips". Tradition and Change: Studies in Contemporary Literature. London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd. 1919. pp. 69–88. (quote from p. 70)
