William McFee

Writer

1881-06-15

Books by William McFee

Captain Macedoine's Daughter
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Quotes by William McFee

Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility.
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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
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The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for happiness.
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous.
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There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
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An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
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Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.
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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.
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The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration; wives whose existence is given over to a ceaseless vigil of cantankerous affection.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune.
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It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
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It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
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There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
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It's the people whore comfortable who have time to worry over little trivial things.
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