All William McFee Quotes
- People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune. Ever Seem
- One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. Bluff
- Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight. Both
- A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting on. Continually
- It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold. Emotional
- The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool. Belongs
- A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than to snatch the knotted cords… Blow
- The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship? Bring
- There is nothing like an odor to stir memories. Good Memories
- If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Fate
- The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly, too crudely, too cruelly, for… All
- Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is preoccupied and, possibly, cantankerous. Anxiety
- There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start. Birth
- An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul? Collar
- Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends… Deserted
- The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either… Added
- The wives who are not deserted, but who have to feed and clothe and comfort and scold and advise, are the true objects of commiseration;… Advise
- It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty,… Abstracting
- It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark. Dark
- There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work.… Destroying