Quotes by : Hope Mirrlees

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

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

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

The cattle crouched round them in soft shadowy clumps, placidly munching, and dreaming with wide-open....

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.

Pride and resentment are not indigenous to the human heart and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate....

Reason I know, is only a drug, and, as such, its effects are never permanent. But, like the juice of....

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

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