Quotes from Richard Marsh

Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down.

Sometimes I venture to call my soul my own

Those who hate are kin.

I turned round, mechanically, like an automaton. Such passivity was worse than undignified, it was galling; I knew that well. I resented it with secret rage. But in that room, in that presence, I was invertebrate.

You employ large phrases.

Then this travesty of manhood reascended to his feet, and said, whether speaking to me or to himself I could not tell

Ordinarily I believe that I have as high a spirit as the average man, and as solid a resolution; but when one has been dragged through the Valley of Humiliation, and plunged, again and again, into the Waters of Bitterness and Privation, a man can be constrained to a course of action of which, in his happier moments, he would have deemed himself incapable. I know this of my own knowledge.

It was the old tale retold, that to the life of every man there is a background

Love's upsetting!—in

He leaped, shrieking, off the bed, and sprang at me, clasping my throat with his horrid hands, bearing me backwards on to the floor; I felt his breath mingle with mine * * * and then God, in His mercy, sent oblivion.

It is essential to a politician that he should have his firmest friends among the fools, or his climbing days will soon be over.