Norman Douglas Quotes

A child of eight is many-sided. By eighteen most of his auspicious angles have been polished away; he is standardised; transformed, perhaps into the perfect citizen. Your perfect citizen may be a fine fellow, but he is not the perfect man.

To find a friend one must close one eye. To keep him__two.

Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.

As to abuse__I thrive on it. Abuse, hearty abuse, is a tonic to all save men of indifferent health.

It is the drawback of all sea-side places that half the landscape is unavailable for purposes of human locomotion, being covered by useless water.

Don Francesco was a fisher of men, and of women. He fished ad maiorem Dei gloriam, and for the fun of the thing. It was his way of taking exercise.