Louis Bromfield > Quotes

“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had given her a great understanding and clarity of mind. He knew, too, almost at once, on the day she had driven up to the door of the cottage, that she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since . . . that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere she had learned all this. She was like a woman to whom nothing could ever again happen.”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

“...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”
― Louis Bromfield

“She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.”
― Louis Bromfield

“I was brought up to look upon falling in love as something natural...something that was pleasant and natural and amusing. I've been in love before, casually, the way young Frenchmen are...but in earnest, too, because a Frenchman can't help surrounding a thing like that with sentiment and romance. He can't help it. If it were just...just something shameful and nasty, he couldn't endure it. They don't have affairs in cold blood the way I've heard men talk about such things since I've come here. It makes a difference, Mrs. Pentland, if you look at things in the light they do. I've learned now, and it is a thing which needs learning, the most important thing in all life. The French are right about it. They make a fine, wonderful thing of love.”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

“It was not recklessness when you risked nothing, when what you did made no difference to anyone, not even to yourself.”
― Louis Bromfield, The Rains Came

“she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

“loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity. Looking”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

“There was something vulgar, even a little improper, in a woman like Sabine who at forty-six looked thirty-five. At”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady

“One got a savor out of life by casting overboard all the little rules which clutter up existence.”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn

“It's classes and class feeling that are dangerous in a democracy. If ever our people congeal into classes, then our democracy is lost. Individuals may be as bad as they like without too much harm. It's only when they gang up that they become dangerous.”
― Louis Bromfield, Mrs. Parkington

“There is nothing so exciting or so satisfying or so beautiful as the earth and the seasons and rich green fields and fat cattle, the sound of foxes barking in the night and the raccoon's print in the snow. It is [my] profound belief that farming is the most honorable of professions and unquestionably a romantic and inspiring one.”
― Louis Bromfield, Pleasant Valley

“There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with discontent, distilling in this process of contrast a sense of satisfaction, of richness that can be captured and pinned down only by those who possess the gift of awareness.”
― Louis Bromfield

“she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady”
― Louis Bromfield, Early Autumn: A Story of a Lady