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Lucas Malet Quotes

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

There is a passion of reverence, almost of pity, mingling with the love of an honest man for a pure girl, which makes it the most exquisite, perhaps, of all human sentiments.

Lucas Malet
Love, Girl, Honesty
Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow.

Lucas Malet
Resolution, Crops, Pleasant
Lucas Malet (1885). “Colonel Enderby's Wife: A Novel”

Good resolutions are a pleasant crop to sow. -The seed springs up so readily, and the blossoms open so soon with such a brave show, especially at first. But when the time of flowers has passed, what as to the fruit?

Lucas Malet
Spring, Flower, Bravery

He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers have a proverbial power of balancing inverted pyramids, going to sea in sieves, and successfully performing other kindred feats impossible to a faithless and unbelieving generation.

Lucas Malet
Sea, Pyramids, Numbers

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