All Roads Lead to Calvary Quotes

“She had lost her faith in journalism as a drum for the rousing of the people against wrong. Its beat had led too often to the trickster’s booth, to the cheap-jack’s rostrum.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“She had counted her chickens before they were dead.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“The business of the journalist,” the man had continued, “is to destroy the truth, to lie, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, to sell his soul for his daily bread. We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping-jacks. They pull the strings and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities, our lives are the property of other men.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“If women were coming into public life these sort of relationships with men would have to be faced and worked out. Sex must no longer be allowed to interfere with the working together of men and women for common ends. It was that had kept the world back. They would be the pioneers of the new order. Casting aside their earthly passions, humbly with pure hearts they would kneel before God’s altar.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“In this world,” explained Mr. Simson, “someone has got to be Master. The only question is who.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“It was not what we got out of civilization but what we put into it that was our gain. Its luxuries and ostentations were, in themselves, perhaps bad for us. But the pursuit of them was good. It called forth thought and effort, sharpened our wits, strengthened our brains.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“Mr. Airlie had lunched the day before with a leonine old gentleman who every Sunday morning thundered forth Social Democracy to enthusiastic multitudes on Tower Hill. Joan had once listened to him and had almost been converted: he was so tremendously in earnest. She now learnt that he lived in Curzon Street, Mayfair, and filled, in private life, the perfectly legitimate calling of a company promoter in partnership with a Dutch Jew. His latest prospectus dwelt upon the profits to be derived from an amalgamation of the leading tanning industries: by means of which the price of leather could be enormously increased.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“If God gives woman a drum he doesn’t mean man to take it away from her.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“In a noisy, flaring street, a thin-clad woman passed her, carrying a netted bag showing two loaves. In a flash, it came to her what it must mean to the poor; this daily bread that in comfortable homes had come to be regarded as a thing like water; not to be considered, to be used without stint, wasted, thrown about. Borne by those feeble, knotted hands, Joan saw it revealed as something holy: hallowed by labour; sanctified by suffering, by sacrifice; worshipped with fear and prayer”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“Joan of Arc! Fancy dying to put a thing like that upon a throne. It would be funny if it wasn’t so tragic. You can say she drove out the English—saved France. But for what? The Bartholomew massacres. The ruin of the Palatinate by Louis XIV. The horrors of the French Revolution, ending with Napoleon and all the misery and degeneracy that he bequeathed to Europe. History might have worked itself out so much better if the poor child had left it alone and minded her sheep.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“But I've won," she said. "I'm dying further forward. I've helped advance the line.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary

“If I succeed, if I am strong enough to figth the world for myself and win, that will mean I am strong enough and clever to help others”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead To Calvary: Large Print

“Our Calvary may be a very little hill compared with the mountains where Prometheus suffered, but to us it is steep and lonely.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, All Roads Lead to Calvary