Arnold Haultain Quotes

1857–1941 Canada

Theodore Arnold Haultain (3 November 1857 – 11 June 1941) was a British writer. He was for many years secretary to Goldwin Smith in Toronto, writing a memoir and acting as literary executor after his death.

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Golf is a game in which attitude of mind counts for incomparably more than mightiness of muscle.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

A woman can say more in a sigh than a man can say in a sermon.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Woman is a species of which every woman is a variety.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

More women are wooed for their complexions than for their characters.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

It often gives a lady a pleasure to give her lover a pang.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

There are more "Don't's" in golf than there are in any other avocation in life.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Golf is more exacting than racing, cards, speculation, or matrimony.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

Golf is more exacting than a a steeple-chase or the half-mile.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

A man to whom a woman cannot look up, she cannot love. Yet,
It is marvelous how a woman contrives to find something to look up to in a man.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Don't worry about your caddie. He may be an irritating little wretch; but for eighteen holes he is your caddie.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

What women admire is a subtle combination of forcefulness and gentleness.
If a woman has to choose between forcefulness and gentleness, always she will sacrifice the latter.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Most of the difficulties in golf are mental, not physical; are subjective, not objective; are the created phantasms of the mind, not the veritable realities of the course.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

A man imagines he wins by strenuous assault. The woman knows the victory was due to surrender.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Those who think their God...has nowhere so plainly shown himself as in his works, will seek in the face and lineaments of Nature that consoling smile which every lonely soul so miserably craves.

In almost all other games you pit yourself against a mortal foe; in golf it is yourself against the world: no human being stays your progress as you drive your ball over the face of the globe.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

For woman's chief want is to feel that she is wanted. Therefore it is that
With women, cruelty is more easily borne than coldness. Indeed,
It is astonishing how much downright cruelty a woman will stand from the man she loves or has loved.

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Widows rarely choose unwisely!

Hints for Lovers (1909)

Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.

Of Walks and Walking Tours (1914)

It is not a wrestle with Bogey; it is not a struggle with your mortal foe; it is a physiological, psychological, and moral fight with yourself; it is a test of mastery over self; and the ultimate and irreducible element of the game is to determine which of the players is the more worthy combatant.

The Mystery of Golf (1908)

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