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  • I can tell you how to get what you want: You've just got to keep a thing in view and go for it and never let your eyes wander to right or left or up or down. And looking back is fatal.

    Eye   Views   Want  
    William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.113, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

    William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
  • The measure of my success is the measure of my happiness.

    William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
  • Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

    Women   Cat   And Love  
    William John Locke (2008). “Septimus (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 24pt Edition)”, p.355, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

    Passion   Love Is   Men  
    William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition
  • Beyond all the fires of love through which one passes there is the star of Duty, and happy the individual who can live in its serenity.

    Stars   Fire   Serenity  
    William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
  • Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

    Missing   Made  
    William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
  • Don't be a genius, my son, it isn't good for anybody.

    Son   Genius   My Son  
    William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.45, Library of Alexandria
  • In France the men all live in cafes, the children are all put out to nurse, and the women, saving the respect of mademoiselle -- well, the less said about them the better.

    Children   Men   Nurse  
    William John Locke (1912). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”
  • Children are the root of all evil.... Happy the man who has his quiver empty.

    Children   Men   Roots  
    William John Locke (1922). “A Christmas Mystery: The Story of Three Wise Men”, p.7, Library of Alexandria
  • As I enter on the path of happiness, I scatter the dregs and shreds and clippings of the past behind me. I divest myself of all the crapulous years.

    Past   Years   Path  
    William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.207, Library of Alexandria
  • Women are women and can't help themselves.

    Women   Helping  
    William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.245, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The only remedy against the malady of life is life itself. The bane is its own antidote.

    Life   Antidote   Remedy  
    William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC
  • You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.

    William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.272, Library of Alexandria
  • If you love a Dream Woman ... let her stay the divine Woman of the Dream. To awaken and clasp flesh and blood, no matter how delicately tender, and find that love has sped at the dawn is a misery too deep for tears.

    Dream   Blood   Tears  
    William John Locke (19??). “The Belovd Vagabond”, p.289, Library of Alexandria
  • I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

    Courage   Believe   Army  
    William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.470, Library of Alexandria
  • Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

    Sex   Men   Years  
    William John Locke (2008). “The Red Planet (Volume 2 of 2) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.268, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Life is too transcendentally humorous for a man not to take it seriously. Compared with it, Death is but a shallow jest.

    Life   Humorous   Men  
    William John Locke (1925). “Simon the Jester”, p.322, Library of Alexandria
  • I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

    Lying   Sleep   Love Is  
    William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.91, tredition
  • Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

    Sex   Ninety Nine   Soul  
  • I hold in my hands the very soul of a man. What more dare a woman ask of the high gods?

    Men   Hands   Soul  
    William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
  • The only cure for loss of illusions is fresh illusions, more illusions, and always illusions.

    Loss   Illusion   Cures  
    William John Locke (2008). “The Glory of Clementina”, p.188, Wildside Press LLC
  • Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

    William John Locke (1903). “Where Love is: A Novel”
  • No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

    May   Matter   Fantastic  
    William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”
  • To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

    Fall   Police   Black  
    William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.135, tredition
  • It all depends whether hope is in front or behind you.

    William John Locke (1902). “The Usurper”
  • It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard, and to see him die of delirium tremens within six weeks. An experience so vivid, like lightning must blast something in a woman's conception of life. Because one man's kisses reeked of whisky the kisses of all male humanity were anathema.

    Girl   Husband   Kissing  
    William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.13, tredition
  • Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

    William John Locke (1924). “The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol”, p.141, Library of Alexandria
  • Art is long, and the talk about it is even longer.

    Art   Long   Art Is  
  • Have you ever considered what anxious thought, what consummate knowledge of human nature, what dearly-bought experiences go into the making of an advertisement?

    William John Locke (2012). “Septimus”, p.59, tredition
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