Amory Blaine Quotes

“Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.”

“He felt that he was leaving behind him his chance of being a certain type of artist. It seemed so much more important to be a certain sort of man.”

“Weak things were often beautiful, weak things were never good.”

“Dear, don’t think of getting out of bed yet. I’ve always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous.”

“I know myself . . . but that is all.”

“But he fell gradually in love and began to speculate wildly on marriage.”

“He asked her if she thought he was conceited. She said there was a difference between conceit and self-confidence. She adored self-confidence in men.”

“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”

“I can’t say sweet things. But you are beautiful.”

“I’ve enjoyed imagining you were my son, that perhaps when I was young I went into a state of coma and begat you, and when I came to, had no recollection of it… it’s the paternal instinct, Amory.”

“He was a slave to his own moods.”

“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”

“I possess the most valuable experience, the experience of the race, for in spite of going to college I’ve managed to pick up a good education.”

“I’m sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer.”

“His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before.”

“She was gone, definitely, finally gone. Until now he had half unconsciously cherished the hope deep in his heart that some day she would need him and send for him.”