Hervey Allen Quotes
- Religions change; beer and wine remain.
- Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
- Some of the shells brought my heart into my mouth; lying there waiting for them was intolerable. I was sure I was going to be…
- Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
- Legends are material to be moulded, and not facts to be recorded.
- Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and…
- Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void
- In a continent but recently settled, many parts of which have as yet little historical or cultural background, the material for this volume has been…