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Weymouth Sands QUOTES

Weymouth Sands QUOTES

1 " Had the whole human race, in the circles of some immense Colosseum gathered together to see Mrs. Cobbald executed it is certain that she would never have blinked an eyelid, or lapsed one hair's breadth from her fortitude. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

2 " It was characteristic of the vein of unhappy sluggishness and inertness in him that only when impressions had subsided into the remote past could he be thrilled by them. The reality of the present seemed always weighted with something hurting. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

3 " The subtlest of all differences between human beings has to to with their attitude to themselves when they are thinking about themselves. Some caress themselves when they are alone and consciously dote on themselves, whereas others hold themselves apart from themselves with a certain despotic contempt for themselves—and this, too, even in the midst of their liveliest sensations. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

4 " Mr. Gaul took off his spectacles, a gesture of his which always accompanied the reception of anything startling. But he only twisted them in his hands and replaced them carefully. Had the event been more personally arresting he would have cleaned them with his coat-sleeve. Confronted by a shipwreck he might even have rubbed them against his trousers. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

5 " Being a philosopher, rather than a neophyte in sanctity, Mr. Gaul did not feel it at all incumbent upon him to refrain from contemplating Perdita's legs. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

6 " Sylvanus was more than shy of himself. A hot rush of blood causing him a curious discomfort, would mount up to his head at the merest approach to physical self-consciousness. He had to forget himself, or he couldn't go on! "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

7 " Oh, I don't care, I don't care, I don't care! I don't care what happens, as long as everything doesn't go on repeating itself! "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

8 " The mind of a teacher of Latin and a reader of Greek is a queer thing. No sooner had Magnus in his justifiable indignation at her teasing ways imagined himself ravishing Curly by force in her own maiden bed, than such a blind passion of pure love for her swept over him that the blood rushed to his head and he squeezed his bony hands together. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

9 " Children's aesthetic sense is a deep half-animal feeling and when it is outraged it leaves a wound behind it that never quite heals up. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

10 " His neck as he stretched it upwards and backwards, felt like the neck of an antediluvian tortoise. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

11 " Jerry had indeed something in him that went beyond Rabelaisianism, in that he not only could get an ecstasy of curious satisfaction from the most drab, ordinary, homely, realistic aspects of what might be called the excremental under-tides of existence but he could slough off his loathing for humanity in this contemplation and grow gay, child-like, guileless. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

12 " It's as if we were both digging into each other's soul to find a self that was put there before we were born. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

13 " It was as if cowslips and cow-droppings mingled with sea-horses and cowry-shells. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

14 " She still required the dangerous, maddening nerve-quiver of vice to render existence bearable. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

15 " With its green curtains and green carpet, with its green valences round its green arm-chairs, with its green tassels round its vase-bearing brackets, this spacious chamber, designed to pleasure their dead mother before either of them were born, was like a mausoleum to Ruth and Rodney. "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands

16 " But what I've got to do if I'm to keep any self-respect at all," he thought, rising stiffly from the bench, while his teeth chattered, "is to accept my cowardice, take it all for granted, and think of myself as a nervous insignificant book-worm, who can't do anything but teach Latin and be petted by Miss Le Fleau! "

― John Cowper Powys , Weymouth Sands