Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham Quotes
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How few successful men are interesting! Hannibal, Alcibiades, with Raleigh, Mithridates, and Napoleon, who would compare them for a moment with their mere conquerors?
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Success, which touches nothing that it does not vulgarize, should be its own reward.
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Poverty, many can endure with dignity. Success, how few can carry off, even with decency and without baring their innermost infirmities before the public gaze!
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If in another world there is any riding — and God forbid that I should go to any heaven in which there are no horses — I cannot but think that there will be a soft swishing as of the footsteps of some invisible horse heard occasionally on the familiar trails over which the equestrian statue is to look.
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Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
- Born: May 24, 1852
- Died: March 20, 1936
- Occupation: Politician
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