PITHY PASSAGES FROM MODERN NOVELS, ETC.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 104

PITHY PASSAGES FROM MODERN NOVELS, ETC.

COLLECTED BY W. H. J. SEFFERN, NEW PLYMOUTH. In most instances the names of the novels from which the passages have been taken are given: but where * Anon ’ is placed the sentences have been extracted from magazine or newspaper articles. rOVE that begins in crime ends in destruction ; its j evil recoils on the heads of those that have yielded to its insidious tempting.— Wormwood. Love loves to pardon.— Wild Kost. Love is a de vine emotion, and demands the divinest comprehension.— The Soul oj Lilith. Lunatics. —It is curious that the great majority of lunatics should be found in society. Society says that all men of genius are mad more or less, but it is a notable fact that very few men of genius have ever been put in mad houses, whereas the society that calls the men crazy is always finding its way there.— Dr. Claudius. Marriages.—lt is a pity if matches, as they say, are

made in heaven the parties to them don’t have notice of it when they are children, so as they should not go floundering off on the wrong scent.— The Three Reeruits. Marriages.—To some wives, and not the worst of them, half the pleasure of marriage is to be mistress of a house.— Young Mrs Jardine. Marriage.—Marriage unconsecrated by love is almost as great a sin as love unconsecrated by marriage.— Young Mrs Jardine. Marriage gives a girl liberty, gives her admiration, gives her success ; a woman’s whole position depends upon it.— A Drama tn Muslin. Marriage.—All fathers of all nations nowadays look to the practical-utility advantage of marriage for their children, and quite right too. One cannot live on airbubbles of sentiment — Wormwood. Marriage.—We marry and we give in marriage, but it is not loving. Love is like a colour say blue. There are a thousand shades of blue, and the outer shades are at last not blue at all, but green or purple.— The Sowers.

Marriage is a lifelong conversation, and I have never found that conversation was more interesting because she had money in her purse. — Mrs Romney. Marriage.—A woman can do nothing until she is married.— A Drama In Muslin. Marriage. —A man should choose a wife with a careful eye to his own personal gratification, in the same way that he chooses horses or wine—perfection or nothing.— The Sorrows oj Satan. Marriage.—lf a woman does not want to pass for a failure she must get a husband, and upon this all her ideas should be set. — A Drama In Muslin. Marriage.—People marry for better or for worse, and it is more frequent worse than better. — Diana's Discipline. Marriages.—Therefore let the Bishops look to certain necessary changes in the marriage service, and let young men see that their ideas change with the times, else there will be no sweethearts for them.— Jerry. Marriage spoils a woman’s career ; we must live our life to its utmost. — All Sorts and Conditions of Men. Marriage.—When men marry late in life they always beget fools. — Molly Dawn. Marriage.—To marry would be to step into an unknown country.— Marion Darche. Married Love allows of nothing but the shallowest concealments.— Robert Elsmere. Matrimony.—A wooden leg and a slippery deck is a matrimonial conjunction that is bound to come to grief. —The Tragedy of Featherstone. Mankind.—What a strangely presumptuous idea is that which pervades the minds of the majority of persons —namely, that mankind as we know it must be the highest form of creation simply because it is the highest form we can see. — Romance of Two Worlds. Maternity.—The glorious mystery of maternity, which should make every daughter of Eve feel the first sure hope of her first-born child to be a sort of Divine annunciation !— Mistress and. Maid. Madness. —The world has various ways of defining insanity in different individuals. The genius who has grand ideas and imagines he can carry them out is ‘ mad ;’ the priest who, like St. Damien, sacrifices himself for others is * mad ;’ the hero who, like the English Gordon, perishes at his post instead of running away to save his own skin is ‘ mad ;’ and only the comfortable tradesman or financier who amasses millions by systematic cheating his fellows is sane.— Wormwood.