William McFee
William McFee
William McFeewas an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 June 1881
CountryUnited States of America
guarantee people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
against guarantee people realize seem
People don't seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
against guarantee
Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
man
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
failure writing people
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
obscurity reputation fame
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
memories odor good-memories
There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
artist teens bursting
The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
responsibility anxiety darkness
Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
years may pessimistic
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
writing soul shows
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
marriage wife comfort
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
romantic adventure vision
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
grief men hair
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.