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...
people reform neighbor
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
rude pay half
It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude.
grandmother men saffron
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
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.
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.
education echoes states
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
wine aphrodisiac mating
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
time wedges insert
One can always trust to time. Insert a wedge of time and nearly everything straightens itself out.
justice people not-good-enough
Justice is too good for some people and not good enough for the rest.
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.
neighbor cease all-things
They who are all things to their neighbors cease to be anything to themselves.
reading drinking tea
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
truth epigrams
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.