The Third Violet Quotes

“All men are. I declare, I think you to be the most incomprehensible creatures.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“if a man loves a woman better than the whole universe, how much does he love the whole universe?”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“That is the most odiously aristocratic belief,”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“I like the people. But, considered generally, they are a collection of ingenious blockheads.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“Others may do as they please, but as for me,' he concluded ferociously, 'I shall never disclose to anybody that an acrobat, a trained bear of the magazines, a juggler of comic paragraphs, is not a priceless pearl of art and philosophy.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“You get so frightfully hungry as soon as you learn that there are no more meals coming.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet

“What a woman says doesn't amount to shucks. It's the way she says it—that's what counts.”
― Stephen Crane, The Third Violet