Robert Smythe Hichens quotes

Robert Smythe Hichens quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.”
-- Robert Smythe Hichens

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“People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. The Apostle Thomas was artistic up to a certain point. He appreciated the value of shadows in a picture. To be on the alert is to live. To be lulled into security is to die.”
-- Robert Smythe Hichens

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“Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, is almost lost, if we can not be the tortured as well as the torturer.”
-- Robert Smythe Hichens

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