Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglaswas a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books such as his 1915 Old Calabria were also appreciated for the quality of their writing...
education echoes states
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
family disappointment
The families of our friends are always a disappointment.
issues society age
It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
neighbor cease all-things
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
attitude believe men
A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.
justice people not-good-enough
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
moral kind outlook
There is a kinship, a kind of freemasonry, between all persons of intelligence, however antagonistic their moral outlook.
people reform neighbor
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
imagination waste rooms
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
imagination ardent
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
majority motive ignoble
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
teaching men order
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
grandmother men saffron
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
rude pay half
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.