Quotes

"Poets are wiser than anyone because they're the only people who have the guts to think and feel at the same time." ~ The Big Time by Fritz Leiber "The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right." ~ Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli Nature has given us two ears, but only one mouth. ~ Henrietta Temple by Benjamin Disraeli Fear makes us feel our humanity. ~ Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli The fool wonders, the wise man asks. ~ Count Alarcos: A Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke. ~ Count Alarcos: A Tragedy by Benjamin Disraeli He took the brandy flask and poured out a glass of neat spirit, stiff enough to help anybody over anything. ~ The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood And yet this house in the square, that seemed precisely similar to its fifty ugly neighbours, was as a matter of fact entirely different—horribly different. ~ The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood My imagination requires a judicious rein; I am afraid to let it loose, for it carries me sometimes into appalling places beyond the stars and beneath the world. ~ The Listener by Algernon Blackwood