Walter Van Tilburg Clark Quotes

#1. Then our crime's worse than a murderer's. His act puts him outside the law, but keeps the law intact. Ours would weaken the law.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#2. Helen, who was wild to be doing, and who had no patience for the limitation of words, or of thoughts, or even of the body, though she trusted the body most.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#3. We desire justice, and justice has never been obtained in haste and strong feeling.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#4. I failed, he said, I got talking my ideas. It's my greatest failing.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#5. Is it really so important to be different?

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#6. but you can feel awful guilty about nothing when the men you're with don't trust you.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#7. Most men are more afraid of being thought cowards than of anything else, and a lot more afraid of being thought physical cowards than moral ones.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#8. Places, like people, have their beginnings and have also their endings.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

#9. That hatred of the railroad was Winder's only original notion, and when he got mad that always came in some way. Everything else was what he'd heard somebody, or most everybody, say, only he always got angry enough to make it sound like a conviction.

Walter Van Tilburg Clark