25 Quotes by Richard Harding Davis

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.

I have never understood why an intoxicated man feels the climax of insult is to hurl at you your name. Perhaps because he knows it is the one charge you cannot deny. But invariably before you escape, as though assured the words will cover your retreat with shame, he throws at you your full title.

The Marines have landed and the situation is well in hand.

No civilized person ever goes to bed the same day he gets up.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

All through the night, like the tumult of a river when it races between the cliffs of a canyon, in my sleep I could hear the steady roar of the passing army.

What I admire most in men – To sit opposite a mirror at dinner and not look in it.

Morocco as it is is a very fine place spoiled by civilization.

I am now in Gibraltar. It is a large place and there does not seem to be room in this letter, in which to express my feelings about Moors in bare legs and six thousand Red-coats and to hear Englishmen speak again.