Quotes by : Hope Mirrlees

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

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....

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

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

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....

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

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....