106 Quotes by Storm Jameson

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

... the stomach is near the heart and one appetite pricks on another.

... we do not remember people as they were. What we remember is the effect they had on us then, but we remember it through an emotion charged with all that has since happened to us.

The past is able to close round certain moments, as if they were seeds, and deliver them again fresh and living in the present.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

Not literature alone, but society itself is wormed and rotten when language ceases to be respected not merely by advertisers and politicians, but by persons of learning and authority.

No one asks public men to be strictly moral, but they must seem to be well-behaved.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.