Cornish Trilogy Quotes

“It was a man's mind, the size of a house.”

“The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.”

“Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.”

“What we call luck is the inner man externalized”

“A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.”

“Too much cleanliness is an enemy to creation, to speculative thought.”

“A Philistine is someone who is content to live in a wholly unexplored world.”

“Did you ever hear such enthusiasm? In Canada, I mean, the Home of Modified Rapture.”

“It is a firm critical principle that nobody living is quite as good as somebody dead.”

“It was a philosophy deformed by that disease so fatal to philosophers – personal experience.”

“Autumn, to me the most congenial of seasons: the University, to me the most congenial of lives.”

“Important rule of professorcraft: never show resentment at a student insult — wait and get them later.”

“Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog's life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.”

“A world without corruption would be a strange world indeed — and a damned bad world for lawyers, let me say.”

“Half a million Gypsies dead, at the command of this gadjo world; who weeps for them? I do, sometimes. I do.”

“The paradox of money is that when you have lots of it you can manage life quite cheaply. Nothing so economical as being rich.”

“So what was I to do? To go backward was base: to go forward an adventure into splendour and terror. But it was forward I must go.”

“"Will you respect me enough not to snoop through my papers?"
"Perhaps not as much as that. I like to know what's going on."”

“They did not murmur the [ Canadian ] national prayer: "O God, grant me mediocrity and comfort; protect me from the radiance of Thy light."”

“McVarish lectured dully; his stuff was good but he was too much the scholar to make it interesting, lest somebody should accuse him of "popularization".”