Fortune's Son Quotes

“True vice, my lady, would frighten us all, if it did not wear the mask of virtue. (p.56)”
― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son

“... never engage to play with a troubled mind or excited emotions. Lucidity of mind is crucial and once once's emotions become engaged in the play all is lost.....”
― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son

“I bid you welcome to a new Utopia where men may be free of the so-called moral subjugations and constraints, and where for a time we may shake off those bonds of servitude wherein we are so tyrrannously enslaved."
"You are the humanist,George, not I- what the deuce does he natter on about?"
"Mostly whores and Booze," George replied with a grin.
Sandwidh contined while rapping once more upon the door, "Man is led into vice only when he is denied, my friends; for it is his nature to long after things forbidden and to desire most fervently what is denied."
"Another translation?" Philip asked George.
"Whores and booze... in boundless supply."
"Ah,"Philip said. "I stand in renewed appreciation of the philosophers.”
― Emery Lee, Fortune's Son