Robert Smythe Hichens Quotes

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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

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

Robert Smythe Hichens

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

Robert Smythe Hichens

Robert Smythe Hichens

Born: November 14, 1864

Died: July 20, 1950 (aged 85)

Bio: Robert Hichens was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the "Naughty Nineties".

Known for:

The Green Carnation (1894)
The Spell of Egypt (1908)
The Garden of Allah (1904)
The Way of Ambition (1913)
Tongues of conscience (1900)

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