5 Quotes by M.P. Shiel

It was while I was seated in an easy-chair in the street the following evening, smoking, watching the combustion of this structure, that something was suddenly born in me, something out of Hell, and I smiled a smile that never man smiled. And I said: 'I will burn: I will return to London...

Of ignorant people I am accustomed to consider the mere scientist the most ignorant!

Between chaos and our shoes wobbles, I tell you, the thinnest film!

The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life

Drink wine with me, and be less Tartarean.