106 Quotes by Storm Jameson

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas – on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor – unless he means something else, quite different – is a rogue...

Think of all the really successful men and women you know. Do you know a single one who didn’t learn very young the trick of calling attention to himself in the right quarters?

Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses...

I do not think about absent persons as often or with such intense longing as I think of places. They lie one below the other in my mind...

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth...

Perhaps this is in the end what most marriages are – gentleness, memory, and habit.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old – the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.