106 Quotes by Storm Jameson

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

Speaking the truth, once you have started it, is too exhilarating to draw back.

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

invaders always destroy libraries.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.

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 ...

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

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

The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton.