Monica Wright famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.

  • Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.

  • Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

  • First Conjuration Addressed to Emperor Lucifer. Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me.

  • Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else.

  • Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.

  • It is more important to influence people than to impress them.

  • I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

  • Trust is the conduit for influence; it's the medium through which ideas travel.

  • The authority of the Supreme Court must not be permitted to control the Congress or the Executive when acting in their legislative capacities, but to have only such influence as the force of their reasoning may deserve.

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