87 Quotes by James Hilton

No ambitions? And how have you contrived to escape those widespread maladies?

I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I’ve mentioned, and though I don’t talk much about it, the chief thing I’ve asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.

He was surprised to find that beyond his puzzlement he had few misgivings, and none at all on his own behalf. There were moments in life when one opened wide one’s soul just as one might open wide one’s purse if an evening’s entertainment were proving unexpectedly costly but also unexpectedly novel.

Are you interested, by the way, in etchings? I have one or two here that are considered to be rather choice.

Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb.

The jewel has facets,” said the Chinese, “and it is possible that many religions are moderately true.