“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“if people begin by thinking rationally, the danger is that they may end by acting rationally also.” — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“It is almost impossible to get a novel printed in an English journal unless it is warranted to contain nothing at all to which… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“If there is an injustice or a barbarity possible, I might have been sure the law of England would make haste to perpetrate it.” — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
What we each fall in love with individually is, I believe, our moral, mental, and physical complement. Not our like, not our counterpart; quite… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“Professional considerations made the Dean refrain from endorsing this open expression of murderous sentiment in its fullest form; a clergyman ought always to keep… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education! — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“Philip owned a looking-glass, and was therefore accustomed to a very high standard of manly beauty.” — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“Now, nothing annoys an angry savage or an uneducated person so much as the perfect coolness of a civilized and cultivated man when he… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“In fact, in this modern England of ours, this fatherland of snobdom, one passes one's life in a see-saw of doubt, between the Scylla… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“I beg your pardon," Philip interposed stiffly, now put upon his mettle. "We have no taboos at all in England. ... England, you must… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“They were savages, yet they were ghosts. The two most terrible and dreaded foes of civilised experience seemed combined at once in them.” — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
“A bullet would perhaps be an unnecessarily severe form of punishment to mete out; but I confess I could excuse the man who was… — Grant Allen Copy Share Image
