Charles Edward Montague Quotes

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There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Charles Edward Montague

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

Charles Edward Montague

I was born below par to th' extent of two whiskies.

Charles Edward Montague

To possess your soul in patience, with all the skin and some of the flesh burnt off your face and hands, is a job for a boy compared with the pains of a man who has lived pretty long in the exhilarating world that drugs or strong waters seem to create and is trying to live now in the first bald desolation created by knocking them off.

Charles Edward Montague

If you are to love mankind, you must not expect too much from it.

Charles Edward Montague

Charles Edward Montague

Charles Edward Montague

Born: January 1, 1867

Died: May 28, 1928 (aged 61)

Bio: Charles Edward Montague was an English journalist, known also as a writer of novels and essays.

Known for:

Disenchantment (1922)
Dramatic values (1911)
C. E. Montague (1926)
The Right Place: A Book of Pleasures (1924)
Right off the map (1927)

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