Lawrence Hargrave Quotes

“Workers must root out the idea that by keeping the results of their labors to themselves a fortune will be assured to them. Patent fees are so much wasted money. The flying machine of the future will not be born fully fledged and capable of a flight for 1,000 miles or so. Like everything else it must be evolved gradually. The first difficulty is to get a thing that will fly at all. When this is made, a full description should be published as an aid to others. Excellence of design and workmanship will always defy competition. (1894)”

“After breakfast, determined to pass as little of the day as possible in company with Lady Lowborough, I quietly stole away from the company and retired to the library. Mr. Hargrave followed me thither, under pretence of coming for a book; and first, turning to the shelves, he selected a volume, and then quietly, but by no means timidly, approaching me, he stood beside me, resting his hand on the back of my chair, and said softly, ‘And so you consider yourself free at last?’‘Yes,’ said I, without moving, or raising my eyes from my book, ‘free to do anything but offend God and my conscience.”

“India is a place where colour is doubly bright. Pinks that scald your eyes, blues you could drown in.”

“Commitment...something which is loved and hated in equal measure.”

“If your grip on coins of life is not strong enough than they will gradually slip away from your hands,for surely one day you will find that your hands are empty”

“Getting married early is like wrestling with calculus on a merry trip to Las Vegas!”

“I am not a fitness freak, but I do my regular exercises.”

“I did my first film when I was in the final year of my graduation. At that time, I was still a kid, and I couldn't read the industry very well.”

“My heart! Ohhh my poor heartIts bruised...its scarred and its full of pain.... But its still in love with you!”

“The biggest curse in life is not loosing your love, but not being loved by someone you love.”