Mordew Quotes

“A man seems reluctant to live his life and will take any opportunity to disrupt what limited feeling he has for it with whatever happens to be at hand – substances, other people, fighting, procreation – providing that the world becomes blurred to him, reduced”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“Who can say that in doing good, there is not the danger of doing evil? I once thought that if one only put his faith in a higher power and did its bidding, placing one’s own faulty and corrupt desires to one side and living as a tool lives – inanimate, unconscious, unreasoning – one might ensure that good things come of good actions. The matter, in practice, is not so simple. In the hearing of the command, there is room for misinterpretation, and in the acting on that command there is room for failure and mistake.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“Dear boy, there is no shame in ignorance. Ignorance is nothing more than a great opportunity, a wonderful absence that is the precursor to the delights of learning and knowledge.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“With the big do on – all the nobs dancing about, eating peacock beaks and mouse lungs, drinking fermented hummingbird piss or whatever it is they like – the skivvies will be running about, sorting”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“puissant”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“neurasthenic”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“mien”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“eructation,”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“The décor of the parlour of the gin-house suggested a grey and colourless drabness of spirit, but in the matter of brute aggression this was not necessarily telling, since there are many people who have little ability in the appreciation of aesthetic pleasure but are nonetheless ingenious in the modes and means of the martial arts – indeed, it may be that a man who finds himself lacking in the first takes solace in the second. They might imagine him, therefore, as a gambling man imagines a baited bear, and while this would be a serious underestimate, what if they imagined him as a child imagines a dragon or a giant, having powers exceeding any counter?”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“A man seems reluctant to live his life and will take any opportunity to disrupt what limited feeling he has for it with whatever happens to be at hand – substances, other people, fighting, procreation – providing that the world becomes blurred to him, reduced.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“enervating,”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“oestrus.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“tontine”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“Can you weigh up the wrong a man might do in doing good and match it against actions that might be taken to prevent that wrong?”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“repetitio est pater studiorum.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“Sic parvis magna.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“aimless and feckless”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“Nathan went to Joes, and for once their eyelids were still, their limbs were still, everything was still. Nathan put his ear to their lips, to hear for their breath, but there was nothing.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“milieu,”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“métier.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“offal,”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“detritus.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“fecundity”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew

“You will be judged on your actions, not by accidents of birth. Yet now, for the Master's purposes, you are worse than nothing...Again, do not let this disturb you-many malodorous things have a use. Some cheeses. Ammonia. It is simply a fact. Closet yourself with your own kind for now so that you least inconvenience those around you.”
― Alex Pheby, Mordew