“So fine a medicine is the will to action.”
Hope Mirrlees“Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“So fine a medicine is the will to action.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters!”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!”
Hope Mirrlees“A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist“The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open eyes. The narrow zone of colour created by the firelight was like the planet Earth - a little freak of brightness in a universe of impenetrable shadows”
Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist