Famous quotes containing the words charles, williams, british, writer and/or novels:
“When the Prince of Piedmont [later Charles Emmanuel IV, King of Sardinia] was seven years old, his preceptor instructing him in mythology told him all the vices were enclosed in Pandora’s box. “What! all!” said the Prince. “Yes, all.” “No,” said the Prince; “curiosity must have been without.””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)
“the black wings
of the
hospital where
nothing
will grow”
—William Carlos Williams (1883–1963)
“The British tourist is always happy abroad as long as the natives are waiters.”
—Robert Morley (1908–1992)
“The writer considers sayability before anything else.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.”
—D.H. (David Herbert)