Phineas Redux Quotes

“Your nature is decimals. I run after units.”

“What binds him, Oswald? A man can’t be bound without a penalty.”

“But facts always convince, and another man‘s opinion rarely convinces.”

“A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.”

“She rides to hounds, and talks Italian, and writes for the Times.”

“The grace and beauty of life will be clean gone when we all become useful men.”

“When one wants to be natural, of necessity one becomes the reverse of natural.”

“He was essentially a truth-speaking man, if only he know how to speak the truth.”

“To get away well is so very much! And to get away well is often so very difficult!”

“I show Baby, and Oswald shows the hounds. We’ve nothing else to interest anybody.”

“Many people talk much, and then very many people talk very much more.”

“He had a prophecy to make, and prophets have ever been energetic men.”

“The natural man will probably be manly. The affected man cannot be so.”

“He had married, let us say for love; — probably very much by chance.”

“He has the power of making the world believe him simply because he has been rich and a duke.”

“Audacity in wooing is a great virtue, but a man must measure even his virtues.”

“He possessed the rare merit of making a property of his time and not a burden.”

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“As for offending him, you might as well swear at a tree, and think to offend it.”

“But the school in which good training is most practiced will, as a rule, turn out the best scholars.”