Vestal Fire Quotes

“Oh, my dear, how too marvelous! I've longed all my life to eat a flamingo.”
― Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire

“As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.”
― Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire

“Alors, ma passion n'a pas d'échos en lui. Pour lui mon tragique amour n'est rien qu'un blasphème anormal. Oh, mon Carlo, mon Carlo, et toi, tu étais mon sang, ma chair! Comme je souffre! Grand dieu, comme je souffre!”
― Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire

“It is only to the sentimentalist over some tame midland prospect that man appears vile. In Sirene he holds his own with the sublime eccentricity of the natural scene. In Sirene he lives.”
― Compton Mackenzie, Vestal Fire