Deptford Trilogy Quotes

“"You must get to know your personal devil"”

“I know flattery when I hear it; but I do not often hear it.”

“What school performance of anything is ever less than a triumph?”

“"It is not a fact, except insofar as all coincidences are facts."”

“This is the revenge of the unlived life, Ramsay. Suddenly it makes a fool of you.”

“If I had the power to cast curses, I should rank the curse of being enviable very high.”

“Unhappiness of the kind that is recognized and examined and brooded over is a spiritual luxury.”

“You North American men are especially guilty of casting your mothers in a cramping, minor role.”

“Like many people who are losing their grip, he mistook it for the coming of a new wisdom in himself.”

“"Dreams do not foretell the future. They reveal states of mind in which the future may be implicit."”

“If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.”

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“The Devil's attributes have been left vague. I think I've found one of them. It is he who puts the prices on things.”

“Not that any of the women spoke; they had done their speaking before church, and their husbands knew the price of peace.”

“Then I was in love with herself after all, said Diana, making one of those feminine leaps in logic that leave men breathless.”

“"I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two, sides to him."”

“He let me know that he had been led into his marriage by love, and love alone; though he did not say so it was clear he owed Cupid a grudge.”

“Willard liked best to steal from the local cop, but as cops rarely had much money this was a larcenous foppery which he did not often allow himself.”

“"Did you know, by the way, that somebody has to own a grave? Somebody, that is, other than the occupant. I own my father's grave. A strange thought."”

“Simple people seem to think that if a family has money, every member dips what he wants out of some ever-replenished bag that hangs, perhaps, by the front door.”