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.

Bouillabaisse is only good because cooked by the French, who, if they cared to try, could produce an excellent and nutritious substitute out of cigar stumps and empty matchboxes.