December Love

“But she had not troubled about the disciplining of her mind.””

— Robert Hichens

“Complete peace seems but a chilly sort of thing to youth in its quick-silver time.””

— Robert Hichens

“Probably there is no weed in all the human garden which grows so fast as vanity.””

— Robert Hichens

“Strong lights, noise, the human pressure of crowds, the sight of myriads of faces, the sound of many voices”

— Robert Hichens

“The hectic appeals to something in youth,””

— Robert Hichens

“Time's a brute, but there's still plenty of him for me," she said. "And for you, too." "He isn't half so unpleasant to men as to women," said Craven. "He makes a very unfair distinction between the sexes." "Naturally”

— Robert Hichens

“a certain old duchess who, at the age of eighty, was preparing for a tour round the world when influenza stepped in and carried her off, to the great vexation of Thomas Cook and Son.””

— Robert Hichens

“Alick Craven, who was something in the Foreign Office, had been living in London, except for an interval of military service during the war, for several years, and had plenty of interesting friends and acquaintances, when one autumn day, in a club, Francis Braybrooke, who knew everybody, sat down beside him and began, as his way was, talking of people.””

— Robert Hichens