89 quotes found
Novelist · Canadian
Canadian novelist
“I wanted to get away,' said she; 'everybody wants to plague and worry me about nothing. They'll be all right tomorrow. What's worrying them?''They are sacrificing to our Canadian God,' said Solly. ...”
“Canada was settled in the main by people with a lower middle-class outlook and a respect rather than an affectionate familiarity for the things of the mind.”
“Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter it's the belief that counts.”
“The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.”
“Men who look young act young and everlastingly harp on the fact that they are young-but who nevertheless think and act with a degree of caution what would be excessive in their grandfathers-are the...”
“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures let him begin the long solitary task of perfecting himself.”
“As a general thing people marry most happily with their own kind. The trouble lies in the fact that people usually marry at an age when they do not really know what their own kind is.”
“If we seek the pleasures of love passion should be occasional and common sense continual.”
“The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is in fact a return to the idealized past.”
