“If George Apley failed to meet certain challenges, let us admit that we all have failed in some respects, and let us remember that we stand together peculiarly as one large family. Collectively, in habits and ideals, our group is… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises the mind.” — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Some day you will know that there is a beauty of the soul that is more important than worldly beauty. Remember this when you… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“The mood is on me to-night only becuase I have listened to several hours of intelligent conversation and I am not a very brilliant person. Sometimes here on Pequod Island and back again on Beacon Street, I have the most curious delusion that our world may be a little narrow. I cannot avoid the impression that something has gone out… — John P. Marquand Copy Share
“Yet whenever he thought of himself as a dull, deluded opportunist, compared with other people, he always remembered the intensity of his own feelings… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Most people in the world don't know who the Apleys are and they don't give a damn. I don't intend this as rudeness, but… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“There can be no compromise between wrong and right. Germany is wrong and the Allies are right. The devastations of Belgium and the atrocities… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table. — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Nothing which is worth while is easy, nor in my experience is the actual doing of it particularly pleasant. The pleasure arises from completion… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“Materialism has made you worship Mammon and in this material world everything comes too easily. Heat comes too easily and cold. Money comes too… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
“You must learn to spend your money wisely...The main thing is not to have too much money to spend. This I have always found… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
