Patrick Hamilton Quotes

#1. The madness of Christmas is not to be resisted by any human means. It either stealthily creeps or crudely batters its way into every fastness or fortress of prudence all over the land.

Patrick Hamilton

#2. The Law saith, Where is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction? The Gospel saith, Christ is thy righteousness, goodness, and satisfaction.

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#3. God help us, God help all of us, each one, every one, all of us'. Patrick Hamilton at the concusion of 'The Slaves of Solitude'.

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#4. It was not so much what Vicki did that night: it was what she said. It was not so much her behaviour: it was her vocabulary!

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#5. If he knew anything of her habits, she was certain to be somewhere about. He was not looking for her. He was submitting himself to the possibility of encounter.

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#6. Too much thought is bad for the soul, for art, and for crime. It is also a sign of middle age.

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#7. Only at dawn should a man awake from excess - at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve.

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#8. The feeling of the morning after the night before is not a sensation endured by the dissolute only: every morning, for every human being, is in some sort a morning after the night before...

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#9. Mr. Thwaites was, of course, a pronounced and leading Christmasist, being the instinctive leader of everything irritating and depressing, and the others followed him.

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#10. Unto those who have,it shall,uncannily, be given.Unto those who have not,it shall,uncannily,be taken away.

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#11. [ ... ] at any rate there is nothing in the world more dreary, damping, and obscurely perturbing than to come out of a cinema in the afternoon to a noisy world.

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#12. There was not even any hope for Miss Roach that Mr. Thwaites would ever die.

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#13. He had further narrowed his mind by a considerable amount of travel abroad, where he had again always made his way to the small hotels.

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#14. Though it had no wide reputation, all manner of people frequented 'The Midnight Bell.' This was in its nature, of course, since it is notorious that all manner of people frequent all manner of public-houses - which in this respect resemble railway stations and mad-houses.

Patrick Hamilton