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.

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.

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.