One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Bio: John Edward Redmond was an Irish nationalist politician, barrister, and in the British House of Commons. He was best known as leader of the moderate Irish Parliamentary Party from 1900 until his death in 1918.