William John Locke Quotes

• I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

  William John Locke

  Eye, Views, Want

  William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  William John Locke

  Mind, Logic, True Happiness

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

  William John Locke

  Children, Men, Nurse

  William John Locke (1912). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”

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• Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

  William John Locke

  Son, Genius, My Son

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.45, Library of Alexandria

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• Women are women and can't help themselves.

  William John Locke

  Women, Helping

  William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

  William John Locke

  Women, Cat, And Love

  William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.355, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

  William John Locke

  Children, Men, Roots

  William John Locke (1922). “A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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• If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

  William John Locke

  Dream, Blood, Tears

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.289, Library of Alexandria

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• I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

  William John Locke

  Lying, Sleep, Love Is

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.91, tredition

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• You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

  William John Locke

  Faces, Happy Face, Ugliness

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria

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• Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

  William John Locke

  Passion, Love Is, Men

  William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition

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• Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

  William John Locke

  Sex, Ninety Nine, Soul

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• The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

  William John Locke

  Loss, Illusion, Cures

  William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC

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• I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

  William John Locke

  Men, Hands, Soul

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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• It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

  William John Locke

  Behind You, Behinds, Depends

  William John Locke (1902). “The Usurper”

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• Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

  William John Locke

  Missing, Made

  William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”

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• It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

  William John Locke

  Girl, Husband, Kissing

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition

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• Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

  William John Locke

  Anxious Thoughts, Human Nature, Advertisements

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition

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• Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

  William John Locke

  Art, Long, Art Is

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• Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

  William John Locke

  Life, Humorous, Men

  William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.322, Library of Alexandria

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• The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

  William John Locke

  Life, Antidote, Remedy

  William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC

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• Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

  William John Locke

  Life, Games, Common Sense

  William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

  William John Locke

  Past, Years, Path

  William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.207, Library of Alexandria

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• To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

  William John Locke

  Fall, Police, Black

  William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition

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• No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

  William John Locke

  May, Matter, Fantastic

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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