William John Locke Quotes

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We have the richest language that ever a people has accreted, and we use it as if it were the poorest. We hoard up our infinite wealth of words between the boards of dictionaries and in speech dole out the worn bronze coinage of our vocabulary. We are the misers of philological history. And when we can save our pennies and pass the counterfeit coin of slang, we are as happy as if we heard a blind beggar thank us for putting a pewter sixpence into his hat.

William John Locke
My love is hopeless! I know it. But it will feed me to my dying day.

William John Locke
Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

William John Locke
Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

William John Locke
Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

William John Locke
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

William John Locke
Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

William John Locke
I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

William John Locke
If you love a Dream Woman... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

William John Locke
No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

William John Locke
To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

William John Locke
The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

William John Locke
Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

William John Locke
The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

William John Locke
I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

William John Locke
Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

William John Locke