“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
“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 anybody, however narrow, could possibly object, on any ground whatever, religious, political, social, moral or aesthetic. The romance that appeals to your average editor must say or hint at nothing at all which is not universally… — Grant Allen Copy Share
“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
