Grand Days Quotes

“Remember the words of Taine: “for a young person the world always seems a scandalous place”. Later in life, the world seems only to be an imperfect place which can be worked on here and there. I’m told that finally, in old age, the world becomes either infinitely amusing or infinitely annoying — according to one’s temperament.”
― Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days

“She had a deeper conviction that procedures and attitudes could be evolved that extracted the poison from disagreement. She had a fantasy that there was always a formulation which could give painless compromise, if one only had the time.”
― Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days

“Civilisation is soap”.”
― Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days

“But he had the look also of a man who had thought his way through to another wiser place. To a wiser but not a happier place.”
― Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days

“Here, in the foyer of the League of Nations, Edith Campbell Berry stands.”
― Frank Moorhouse, Grand Days