“Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men and found themselves with less in common than they had believed they had.” — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“It was not a friendly picture, but to Conway, as he surveyed, there came a queer perception of fineness in it, of something that had no romantic appeal at all, but a steely, almost an intellectual quality. The white pyramid… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that the little Manchu had never looked so radiant. She gave him a most charming smile, but her eyes were… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
if we have not found the heaven within,we have not found the heaven without — James Hilton Copy Share Image
There's only one thing more important... and that is, after you've done what you set out to do, to feel that it's been worth… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
The first quarter-century of your life was doubtless lived under the cloud of being too young for things, while the last quarter-century would normally… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
When you are getting on in years (but not ill, of course), you get very sleepy at times, and the hours seem to pass… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the exhaustion of the passions is the beginning of wisdom, if you care to alter the proverb.” — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“On the night before the wedding, when Chips left the house to return to his hotel, she said, with mock gravity: "This is an… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Now let me begin by sketching for you a very agreeable picture. You are still, I should say, a youngish man by the world’s… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Then, my son, when the strong have devoured each other, the Christian ethic may at last be fulfilled, and the meek shall inherit the… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
What a host of little incidents, all deep-buried in the past -- problems that had once been urgent, arguments that had once been keen,… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Conway felt again, as he gazed up at the stupendous mountain wall, that there was a superb and exquisite peril in the scene; but… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
“Cigars had burned low, and we were beginning to sample the disillusionment that usually afflicts old school friends who have met again as men… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
