Quotes by : Hope Mirrlees

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

A house with old furniture has no need of ghosts to be haunted.

But it is best to let sleeping facts lie.

As Master Nathaniel jogged leisurely along his thoughts turned to the Farmer Gibberty, who many a time....

The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned....

Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones.

A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.

Poetry and visions, springing as they do from an ever-present sense of mortality, might easily appear....

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.