L.B. Scott Quotes
The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Let us learn how to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead' he suggested, 'After that my own rule is to let everything alone'.
For America is composed not of two sorts of people, but of two frames of mind - the first engaged in doing what is would like to do, the second pretending that such things do not exist.
Colonel Talbot? he is a very disagreeable person, to be sure. He looks as if he thought no Scottish woman worth the trouble of handing her a cup of tea.
. . . confirmed libertines don't reform until they're tired . . .
Communism as I see it has no place in the United States, and the American people will not stand for its teachings.
He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.
I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal.
It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.
I could never be a Communist. I could never be regimented. I could never be told what to write.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Philosophy may be blind without science, but science can lack vision without philosophy.
Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.
Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person.
Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.
There are always those to whom all self-revelation is contemptible, unless it ends with a noble thanks to the gods for the Unconquerable Soul.
The sea, he thought, had treasured it's memories deeper than the faithless land.
their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity.
so wondrous wild, the whole might seemthe scenery of a fairy dream
Always, after he was in bed, there were voices - indefinite, fading, enchanting - just outside his window, and before he fell asleep he would dream one of his favorites waking dreams.
...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past.
There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.
Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.
The more I want to be oblivious, the less I can be. Life and light will not let me be.
I wouldn't ask too much of her, ' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!
I wouldn't ask too much of her, " I ventured. "You can't change the past.""Can't change the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!
He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.
no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for herself.
We'll all be failures?""Yes. I don't mean only money failures, but just sort of - of ineffectual and sad, and - oh, how can I tell you?
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum
If we could only learn to look on evil as evil, whether it's clothed in filth or monotony or magnificence.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.
Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.
That most limited of all specialists, the "well-rounded man".
And courage to me meant ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life--not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living.
You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
This is all. It's been very rare to have known you, very strange and wonderful. But this wouldn't do - and wouldn't last.
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
He found that the business of optimism was no mean task.
But an inferior talent can only be graceful when it's carrying inferior ideas. And the more narrowly you can look at a thing the more entertaining you can be about it.