How marvellous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a... world of tears, welded by the best brains of centuries past; not without the taint and reproach incidental to all human work, but constructed on the whole with pure and splendid purpose. Human, and yet not wholly human--for the most heedless and the most cynical must see the finger of the Divine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are ...like the strainings of the Costive at stool.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners. ...A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwin...d. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow C...harity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Agnes: A half-smart guy, that's what I always draw. Never once a man who's smart all the way around the course. Never once. P...hilip Marlowe: I hurt you much, sugar? Agnes: You and every other man I've ever met.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Carmen: You're cute. I like you. Philip Marlowe: What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my ch...est.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »