Thomas Lodge quotes

“All cats are grey in the dark.”
-- Thomas Lodge

Source : Thomas Lodge, Donald Beecher, Henry D. Janzen, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2005). “A Margarite of America (1596)”, p.131, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

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“Men, in teaching others, learn themselves.”
-- Thomas Lodge

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“Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind. They slip, diminished, neat, through loopholes less than themselves.”

Source : Cats (1934) p. 20

“Nana acts like a stray cat, wild, free, and proud.... ...But inside her heart, she houses a wound. Dense as I am, i thought that. This trait of hers was a part of her charm as well. ..but she never realized how much pain it brought her.... -Nana Komatsu”

“They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.”

Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from May 22, 2013

“But all of this action goes on in the dark, hidden underground. It’s called stealing or piracy, as if sharing a wealth of knowledge were the moral equivalent of plundering a ship and murdering its crew. But sharing isn’t immoral - it’s a moral imperative. Only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy.”

Source : Aaron Swartz (2016). “The Boy Who Could Change the World: The Writings of Aaron Swartz”, p.27, The New Press

“Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.”

“That sun, that light had faded, and she had faded with them. Now she was as grey as the season itself.”

“Tis the hard grey weather Breeds hard English men.”

“Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.”

Source : Graham Greene, Henry J. Donaghy (1992). “Conversations with Graham Greene”, p.35, Univ. Press of Mississippi

“There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one...”

“All cats are grey in the dark.”

Source : Thomas Lodge, Donald Beecher, Henry D. Janzen, Victoria University (Toronto, Ont.). Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (2005). “A Margarite of America (1596)”, p.131, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies