It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties – French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
“No. We never have read a line of Tolstoy. We studiously avoid doing so.” — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
“All His life long He had yearned to be giving. Now, under any circumstances, He always had something to give, ten words and a… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth,… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult. — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
“Shall I tell you the difference between our Holy Father and ourselves? We see things from a single view-point. He sees things from several.… — Frederick Rolfe Copy Share Image
