F. E. Adcock Quotes

Battles are sometimes won by generals; wars are nearly always won by sergeants and privates.

Art's whatever you choose to frame.

Poetry is a search for ways of communication; it must be conducted with openness, flexibility, and a constant readiness to listen.

Somehow we manage it: to like our friends, to tolerate not only their little ways but their huge neuroses, their monumental oddness: "Oh well," we smile, "it's one of his funny days."

There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.

Life in New York is a constant struggle to die of natural causes.

That typically English characteristic for which there is no English name -esprit de corps.

But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty.

Indulgences should never be hesitant.

The trouble with hope is that it only pays off when there's some sense in back of it.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.

It's only the dead who'll tell you the truth.

Things you plan in life usually turn out to be meaningless, things you accumulate without knowing it become your real treasure.