Quote

A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas - on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor - unless he means something else, quite different - is a rogue.

Storm Jameson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Storm Jameson
Age: 95 †
Born: 1891
Born: January 8
Died: 1986
Died: September 30
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Whitby
North Yorkshire
Margaret Storm Jameson
Margaret Ethel Storm Jameson
Body
Precisely
Mean
Honor
Different
Unless
Rogue
Something
Nation
Statesman
Quite
Rogues
Nations
Fleas
Means
Statesmen
Else
Talks

More quotes by Storm Jameson

Image
Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
Storm Jameson
Image
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Storm Jameson
Image
All writers who can claim to be called 'living' must be political in a sense. They must have what the Quakers call a concern to understand what is happening in the world, and must engage themselves, in their writing, to promote no comfortable lies, of the sort which people will pay well to be told rather than the truth.
Storm Jameson
Image
Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.
Storm Jameson
Image
Could anything be absurder than a man? The animal who knows everything about himself--except why he was born and the meaning of his unique existence.
Storm Jameson
Image
Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.
Storm Jameson
Image
Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.
Storm Jameson
Image
Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?
Storm Jameson
Image
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
Storm Jameson
Image
Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.
Storm Jameson
Image
One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.
Storm Jameson
Image
If we are to survive on this planet, there must be compromises.
Storm Jameson
Image
Language is one of the thin walls humanity has built up over centuries against its own bestial and destructive impulses.
Storm Jameson
Image
You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.
Storm Jameson
Image
Nationalism will keep its venom until we succeed in creating an image of the nations of the whole world as so many provinces.
Storm Jameson
Image
Pornography is essentially reductive, an exercise in the nothing-but mode, a depersonalizing of the human beings involved, a showing-up of human lust as nothing but an affair of the genitals.
Storm Jameson
Image
A minor symptom of wars is the cancerous growth of committees.
Storm Jameson
Image
Nothing lasts. Not even a great sorrow.
Storm Jameson
Image
The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.
Storm Jameson
Image
The hunger of the spirit for eternity - as fierce as a starving man's for bread - is much less a craving to go on living than a craving for redemption. Oh, and a protest against absurdity.
Storm Jameson