Norman Douglas Quotes

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.

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.