Quotes by : Hope Mirrlees

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

And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor --....

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that....

Master Nathaniel looked at him. The fixed stare, the slightly-open mouth, the rigid motionless body,....

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

Was it possible that Ranulph, too, was a real person, a person inside whose mind things happened? He....

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result....

It was as if the future were a treacly adhesive fluid that had been spilt all over the present, so that....

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

But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to....