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Quotes from The Sinner's Comedy — John Oliver Hobbes

1867–1906 United States

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Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster which they call Destiny.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

If the gods have no sense of humour they must weep a great deal.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

Talking to you...is only thinking to myself—made easier.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

All is vanity,...discovering it—the greatest vanity.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

"Ah," said that gentleman, ever ready to discuss one friend with another—in fact, it was chiefly for this pleasure that he made them...

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

... love comes to man through his senses—to woman through her imagination.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

... he fell a too ready victim to circumstances: he helped to build the altar for his own sacrifice.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

He longed to make a mark, or, to express it more vulgarly, cut a figure. Now, fortunately or unfortunately, the number of figures which can be cut in the world is practically unlimited; the only difficulty is to cut precisely the kind of figure one would wish.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

"A man's way of loving is so different from a woman's," sighed Anna.
"There ain't nothing," said Mrs. Grimmage, "there ain't nothing that makes them so sulky and turns them against you so soon as saying anything like that."

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife’s hand with singular tenderness and called her "Elizabeth." She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

Reader. But where are the Unities?
Author. In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

The Sinner's Comedy (1892)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Oliver Hobbes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.