Life Quote by Robert W. Chambers

“Unsavoury as it is below, there is cheerfulness, and comfort, and hard, honest work above. ("In The Court Of The Dragon")”

— Robert W. Chambers

“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

“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

“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

“Let the red dawn surmise What we shall do, When this blue starlight dies And all is through.” (The Yellow Sign)”

— Robert W. Chambers

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Have you seen The Yellow Sign?”

— Robert W. Chambers

“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