Top 46 Quotes About Maturin
#1. Wallis,' said Maturin, 'I am happy to see you. How is your penis?
Patrick O'Brian
#2. Looking angrily at the wombat: and a moment later, 'Come now, Stephen, this is coming it pretty high: your brute is eating my hat.'
'So he is, too,' said Dr. Maturin. 'But do not be perturbed, Jack; it will do him no harm, at all. His digestive processes
Patrick O'Brian
#3. A mirth which is not gaiety is often the mask which hides the convulsed and distorted features of agony
and laughter, which never yet was the expression of rapture, has often been the only intelligible language of madness and misery. Ecstasy only smiles
despair laughs.
Charles Robert Maturin
#5. That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
Patrick O'Brian
#7. Come all you thoughtless young men,
a warning take by me
And never leave your happy homes
to sail the raging sea.
Patrick O'Brian
#8. I believe there are few whose view of life has not been affected by the stern or kindly influences of their early childhood, which threw them in upon themselves in timidity and reserve, or drew them out in genial confidence and sympathy with their fellow creatures.
Basil W. Maturin
#9. Ancient and modern languages teem with happily expressed sentiments of more or less force and beauty, sufficiently individualized and excellent to warrant their reproduction and classification.
Maturin Murray Ballou
#10. They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded.
Charles Robert Maturin
#11. How much better a man feels when he is mixed with halibut and leg of mutton and roebuck
Patrick O'Brian
#12. There is no error more absurd, and yet more rooted in the heart of man, than the belief that his sufferings will promote his spiritual safety.
Charles Robert Maturin
#13. I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...
Patrick O'Brian
#15. How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset.
Patrick O'Brian
#17. He paused, I thought, like a man who is watching the effect of the terrors he excites, not from malignity but vanity, merely to magnify his own courage in encountering them.
Charles Robert Maturin
#18. Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our brains receive the spark and become luminous, like inflammable material by the contact of flint and steel.
Maturin Murray Ballou
#19. If I were a woman I should march out with a flaming torch and a sword; I should emasculate right and left.
Patrick O'Brian
#20. The fountain of my heart dried up within me,
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death.
Charles Robert Maturin
#22. A time will come, and soon, when, from mere habit, you will echo the scream of every delirious wretch that harbors near you; then you will pause, clasp your hands on your throbbing head, and listen with horrible anxiety whether the scream proceeded from you or them.
Charles Robert Maturin
#24. When art assumes the omnipotence of reality, when we feel we suffer as much from an illusion as from truth, our sufferings lose all dignity and all consolation. We
Charles Robert Maturin
#25. But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.
Patrick O'Brian
#27. Beauty hath no lustre save when it gleameth through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it.
Charles Robert Maturin
#28. O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.
Charles Robert Maturin
#31. Alas! it is too true that our souls always contract themselves on the approach of a blessing, and seem as if their powers, exhausted in the effort to obtain it, had no longer energy to embrace the object.
Charles Robert Maturin
#32. Many a month of gloomy unconsciousness rolled over me, without date or notice. One thousand waves may welter over a sunk wreck, and be felt as one.
Charles Robert Maturin
#34. Tis well to be merry and wise,
'Tis well to be honest and true;
It is best to be off with the old love,
Before you are on with the new.
Charles Robert Maturin
#35. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
Basil W. Maturin
#38. Hypocrisy is said to be the homage that vice pays to virtue, - decorum is the outward expression of that homage; and if this be so, we must acknowledge that vice has latterly grown very humble indeed.
Charles Robert Maturin
#39. We never get to love by hate, least of all by self-hatred.
Basil W. Maturin
#40. When one fierce passion is devouring the soul, we feel more than ever the necessity of external excitement; and our dependence on the world for temporary relief increases in direct proportion to our contempt of the world and all its works. He
Charles Robert Maturin
#41. The character, therefore, will depend upon the thoughts. I am what I think. I am what I think even more than what I do, for it is the thought that interprets the action. An act in itself good may become even bad by the thought that inspired it.
Basil W. Maturin
#42. Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.
Charles Robert Maturin
#43. The central fire is desire, and all the powers of our being are given us to see, to fight for, and to win the object of our desire. Quench that fire and man turns to ashes.
Basil W. Maturin
#44. Puddings, my dear sir?' cried Graham.
Puddings. We trice 'em athwart the starboard gumbrils, when sailing by and large.
Patrick O'Brian
#45. Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.
Charles Robert Maturin
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