Top 5 Frederick Rolfe Quotes
#1. It's all nonsense to say that the Fifteenth Century can't possibly speak to the Twentieth, because it is the Fifteenth and not the Twentieth, and because those two Centuries haven't got a Common Denominator. They have. It's Human Nature.
Frederick Rolfe
#2. Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.
Frederick Rolfe
#3. An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.
Frederick Rolfe
#4. Most people have only half developed their single personalities. That a man should split his into four and more; and should develop each separately and perfectly, was so abnormal that many normals failed to understand it.
Frederick Rolfe
#5. The student of history knows no more refreshing recreation than that of nailing liars, like vermin, to the wall.
Frederick Rolfe
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