William McFee
William McFee
William McFeewas an English writer of sea stories. His parentage was Canadian...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 June 1881
CountryUnited States of America
marriage wife comfort
The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
romantic adventure vision
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
grief men hair
There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
men emotional hands
There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.
art done pleasure
The artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
destiny men magic
Woman dwell always in the palace of unpalatable truth and never by any chance is there a magic talisman to save them from their destiny. Speech is their ultimate need. We men exist for them only in so far as we can be described.
dark intimate easier
It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
responsibility sight middle
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
rushing wife infidelity
Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
passion men sublime
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
emotional weather safety
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
reading sea pleasure
There is a pleasure unknown to the landsman in reading at sea.
world tranquility peace-and-tranquility
The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
inspirational courage storm
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?