Harold Frederic Quotes

“Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.”

“Is not liberty the destruction of all despotism - including, of course, legal despotism?”

“Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.”

“Man is never always happy, and very often only a brief period of happiness is granted him in this world; so why escape from this dream which cannot last long?”

“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”

“As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.”

“Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.”

“Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.”

“Each of us is in reality an abiding psychical entity far more extensive than he knows.”

“The shortest horror story:The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door.”