Robert Smythe Hichens Quotes

• London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

  Robert Smythe Hichens

  Over You, Black, London

  Robert Smythe Hichens (1934). “The Woman with the Fan”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

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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

  Believe, People, Doubt

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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

  Men, Imagination, May

  Robert Smythe Hichens (1896). “The folly of Eustace: and other stories”

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