"The Napoleon of Notting Hill" Quotes
A whimsical tale of a man who becomes the eccentric ruler of a small district in London.
fiction | 188 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The secret of happiness is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm, always lucid, always willing “to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot.”
The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
The world will perish in a great flame of apathy, choked with emptiness, and the only hope for it is some new spirit with the old name of chivalry.
The people who give themselves up entirely to the influences of the daily press acquire an extraordinary habit of thinking in headlines. They have no thoughts that are not theirs.
The chief object of life is not enjoyment but opportunity.
The true object of all human life is play.
The only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break.
The world has grown old and does not know its own youth.
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are.
The old people are all dead or dying, and I am young and cannot die.
