Barry Pain Quotes
1864–1928 England
Barry Eric Odell Pain (28 September 1864 – 5 May 1928) was an English journalist, poet, humorist and writer.
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Anyone can prove anything except that anything’s worth proving.
I shall leave this farm-house very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.
Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself.
Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.
He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.
The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, gray-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.
How madly she danced that night!
On bitter nights in winter the moon called her and she came, when the breath was vapor, and the trees that circled her dancing-room were black, bare skeletons, and the frost was cruel.