23 Quotes & Sayings By Hope Mirrlees

Hope Mirrlees was born in 1882 and moved to London around the age of sixteen. She was an accomplished writer and published two novels as well as writing short stories and poetry. Her only novel, "The Green Carnation", was published posthumously in 1929. She never married or had children; she died in 1942 at the age of 46.

It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should...
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It shocked his sense of dramatic economy that they should have to resort to violence when the same result could have been obtained by a minimum expenditure of energy. Hope Mirrlees
So fine a medicine is the will to action.
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So fine a medicine is the will to action. Hope Mirrlees
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A bad conscience makes a very good ghost. Hope Mirrlees
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There had always been something rather brutal about (..._) common sense. Hope Mirrlees
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But these are sad times, the 'prentices wanting to be masters, and every little tradesman wanting to be a Senator, and every dirty little urchin thinking he can giveimpudence to his betters! Hope Mirrlees
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Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative. Hope Mirrlees
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Sentimentality is a quality that rarely has the slightest influence on action. Hope Mirrlees
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Mad folks are often as dangerous as bad ones. Hope Mirrlees