Life Quote by Alan Dean Foster

“A man could no longer be private and withdrawn. The world allows no hermits.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“There is nothing more foreign to the hermit than the clownery of a glittering career, success, and all those vulgar illusions that tempt the…

— Cornelius Wencel

“What place indeed is there in the shallow petty frivolous thing called society for noble thoughts and feelings?”

— Honoré de Balzac

“He was a man born out of his time - a strange blending of Puritan and Cavalier, with a touch of the ancient philosopher,…

— Robert E Howard

“The views were immensely wide. Everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequealled nobility.”

— Karen Blixen

“He had no particular character, having always depended on his position in society to give him position among men.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“People made no sense to her. Men, with whom she had everything in common, did not want her around. Women, with whom she had…

— Philipp Meyer

“They were bound together by the things they’d done. Things the nobility could never comprehend being desperate enough to do”

— Lorraine Heath

“My feelings-let's hold on to this idea of them as shuffling Victorians, let's make them servants, an entire uniformed household staff- were fresh, raw,…

— Joan Wickersham

“Remember, nobility knows no race or station. Always judge a man by his heart and actions.”

— Lorna Seilstad

“The thoughtful man becomes a hermit in the thoroughfares of the marketplace.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and…

— Hope Mirrlees