9 quotes
Not every man is so great a coward as he thinks he is – nor yet so good a Christian.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
There are double words for everything: the word that swells, the word that belittles.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
Thus in the best fabric of duplicity, there is some weak point, if you can strike it, which will loosen all.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
Those that have the underhand in any fighting, I have observed, are ever anxious to persuade themselves they were betrayed.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
Let anyone speak long enough, he will get believers.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
When we take our advantage unrelentingly, then we make war.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
It is one of the worst things of sentiment, that the voice grows to be more important than the words, and the speaker than that which is spoken.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
I have observed there are no persons so far away as those who are both married and estranged, so that they seem out of ear-shot or to have no common tongue.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)
Hatred betrayed is hatred impotent.
The Master of Ballantrae (1889)