Dan England and the Noonday Devil Quotes

“Catholics take their Church for granted,” he explained. “We even take our Lord in the tabernacle for granted. But you mustn’t be too hard on us. All children take their home and their father for granted. We are spoiled children.”
― Myles Connolly, Dan England and the Noonday Devil

“Kindness, we have discovered—and I know this will sound strange to you—is more important than chemistry, and humility of far greater value than higher mathematics.”
― Myles Connolly, Dan England and the Noonday Devil

“Years ago when we possessed knowledge of the things you see here, we discovered they did not bring peace. They brought only hate and insatiable ambition, tension and strife and fear. Our people were constantly at war with their environment and with themselves, and, too often, with their neighbors. Somehow the concentrated pursuit of knowledge seemed usually to lead to unhappiness.”
― Myles Connolly, Dan England and the Noonday Devil