Top 12 Geoffrey Household Quotes
#1. He who has learned not to intrude his emotions upon his fellows has also learned not to intrude them upon himself.
Geoffrey Household
#2. I have never taken sides, never leaped wholeheartedly into one scale or the other; nor do I realize disappointments, provided they are severe, until the occasion is long past. Yet I am ruled by my emotions, though I murder them at birth.
Geoffrey Household
#5. The only periods, I suspect, when a man feels captain of his soul are those when he has not the slightest need of such an organ.
Geoffrey Household
#6. I have always been sure that if England were ever occupied its people would find the organization of underground cells an almost effortless means of self-expression.
Geoffrey Household
#7. One does not, I think, kill oneself without a definite desire to do so. It is hardly ever an act to which a man must key himself up; it is a temptation which he must struggle against.
Geoffrey Household
#8. A well-trained diplomat is supposed to write French, for example, like an angel, but to speak it with the peculiar gutlessness of a Geneva nancy-boy.
Geoffrey Household
#9. I like to see a billy-goat accompanying the dairy herd to pasture, supposedly to bring them luck or to eat the herbs that cause abortion.
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#10. Her skin was not a surface; it was an indefinite glory of the palest rose and orange that chose to mould itself to those tense limbs.
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#11. I distrust patriotism; the reasonable man can find little in these days that is worth dying for. But dying against - there's enough iniquity in Europe to carry the most urbane or decadent into battle.
Geoffrey Household
#12. None of my mental activities for the past twenty-four hours might be called thinking. I had allowed my body to take charge. It knew far more about escaping and healing than I did.
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