Courtship Rite Quotes

“Tradition is a set of solutions for which we have forgotten the problems. Throw away the solution and you get the problem back. Sometimes the problem has mutated or disappeared. Often it is still there as strong as it ever was.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“An individualist—a man who has no intention of ever exploring the goals of others because he has no intention of compromising with his own—may become: (a) a hermit of limited goals, (b) a tyrant surrounded by slaves with rebellion in his future and covert hostility in his present.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“The law is what is read, not what is written.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“for a purpose without reason”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“One cannot take a coward on dangerous missions or trust one’s fortune to a fool. How then are cowards and fools to be employed?”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games; no interesting victory is ever assured.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite

“A man who never makes mistakes has long since ceased to do anything new. A man who is always making mistakes is a doomed man with swollen ambitions. But he who judiciously salts success with mistake is the rapid learner.”
― Donald Kingsbury, Courtship Rite