“The Clown turned his powdered face to the mirror. "If to be fair is to be beautiful," he said, "who can compare with me in my white mask?" "Who can compare with him in his white mask?" I asked Death… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")” — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“He had no ears. The artificial ones, which now stood out at an angle from the fine wire, were his one weakness. They were… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“A spring sun was shining on the rue St. Honore, as I ran down the church steps. On one corner stood a barrow full… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.” (The Yellow Sign)” — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is possible that his curiosity was piqued, for with the exception of a hen-turkey, a boy of nineteen is the most openly curious… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“for I knew that the King in Yellow had opened his tattered mantle and there was only God to cry to now.” — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“Why should the Mass of Sainte Cécile bend my thoughts wandering among caverns whose walls blaze with ragged masses of virgin silver? What was… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“The people faded away, the arches, the vaulted roof vanished. I raised my seared eyes to the fathomless glare; and I saw the black… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent, barred out here, confiscated… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
“As it recurred again and again, it set me thinking of what my architect's books say about the custom in early times to consecrate… — Robert W. Chambers Copy Share Image
