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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia — to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
The public...demands certainties...But there are no certainties.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable. No virtuous man — that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense — has ever painted a picture worth looking at, or written a symphony worth hearing, or a book worth reading.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)
I was at the job of reading it for days and days, endlessly daunted and halted by its laborious dullness, its flatulent fatuity, its almost fabulous inconsequentiality.
Prejudices, First Series (1919)