Norman Douglas
Norman Douglas
George Norman Douglaswas a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind. His travel books such as his 1915 Old Calabria were also appreciated for the quality of their writing...
people reform neighbor
People who have reformed themselves has contributed their full share towards the reformation of their neighbor.
men too-late born
No great man is ever born too soon or too late.
imagination waste rooms
I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination.
imagination ardent
Learn to foster an ardent imagination; so shall you descry beauty which others passed unheeded.
majority motive ignoble
No one can expect a majority to be stirred by motives other than ignoble.
teaching men order
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong.
grandmother men saffron
A man who is stingy with saffron is capable of seducing his own grandmother.
reading drinking tea
I wish the English still possessed a shred of the old sense of humour which Puritanism, and dyspepsia, and newspaper reading, and tea-drinking have nearly extinguished.
truth epigrams
You can cram a truth into an epigram - the truth, never.
life enjoy mockery
The business of life is to enjoy oneself; everything else is a mockery.
men nucleus germs
There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.
happiness curiosity secret
The secret of happiness is curiosity
wise lying men
It takes a wise man to handle a lie, a fool had better remain honest.
wine aphrodisiac mating
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.