Martin Boyd > Quotes

“The sorrow of losing what we love is nothing to the torment of having it present but denied us.”
― Martin Boyd, A Difficult Young Man

“Stupidity is the result of a complete absence of imagination, silliness of its excess”
― Martin Boyd, A Difficult Young Man

“On the Right between the duke and the peasant are all kinds of landowners and farmers, all artists and craftsmen, soldiers, sailors, clergymen and musicians. On the Left side are business men, stockbrokers, bankers, exporters, all men whose sole reason for working is to make money, and also mechanics and aviators. We on the Right cannot make money. When we have it, it has only come to us as an accident following on our work, or from luck. There are those whose place is on the right of the pale but who express the ideas of the Left. They are traitors.”
― Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown

“She has awakened his soul and taught him to suffer for love, and that is what we are in this world for: to reach love through suffering.”
― Martin Boyd, The Lemon Farm

“There are nowadays," he said, "two prevalent phenomena. One is to make words meaningless, the other is a disloyalty to the things you belong to. They both originate with the Nazis and the Communists.”
― Martin Boyd, Lucinda Brayford

“He was very sensitive, but only about his own feelings.”
― Martin Boyd, The Cardboard Crown