Hope Mirrlees Quotes

So fine a medicine is the will to action.

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.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action.

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

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!

There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense.

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.