Selected Quotes Quotes

“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.”
― Mary Stewart

“A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“Used every man according to his capacity.”
― mary stewart, The Crystal Cave

“There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“So fine a medicine is the will to action.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can give
impudence to his betters!”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist

“It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.”
― Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist