William McFee Quotes
The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see how they are getting on.
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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 in disaster.
An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
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. Grief has made many a man look younger.
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.
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 happiness.
There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.
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 side.
One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.
People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.
