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Updated: June 10, 2025
"On the contrary," said Quinny, with a sudden inspiration reorganizing his whole battle front, "every artist should marry. The only danger is that he may marry happily." "What?" cried Steingall. "But you said " "My dear boy, I have germinated some new ideas," said Quinny, unconcerned. "The story has a moral, I detest morals, but this has one.
Curtain. The comedy is over." "But that's what they don't understand," said Steingall, with enthusiasm. "That's what they will never understand." "Such miracles exist?" said Towsey with a short, disagreeable laugh. "I know the wife of an artist," said Quinny, "whom I consider the most remarkable woman I know who sits and knits and smiles. She is one who understands.
I believe there are situations, original situations, that are independent of your human emotions, that exist just because they are situations, accidental and nothing else." "As for instance?" said Quinny, preparing to attack. "Well, I'll just cite an ordinary one that happens to come to my mind," said Rankin, who had carefully selected his test.
There wasn't enough room to kill him properly ... he couldn't withdraw the bayonet and stick it in again and finish the man ... and there they were, jammed together ... and the German was squealing, oh, horribly ... and our men had to come and haul the British soldier out of the trench. He'd gone off his head!..." "One oughtn't to think of things like that, Quinny!" "But if you can't help it?
"Quite wrong, Rankin, quite wrong," said Quinny, who would have stated the other side quite as imperiously. "What you cite is a variation of quite another theme, the Faust theme old age longing for youth, the man who has loved longing for the love of his youth, which is youth itself. The triangle is the theme of jealousy, the most destructive and, therefore, the most dramatic of human passions.
"My God," said Gilbert when Henry read this letter to him, "fancy being tutored by a chap who wears petticoats!" "You ought to talk pretty plainly to your guv'nor, Quinny!" Ninian said. "I don't think you ought to let him do that sort of thing. Here we've settled that we're all going to Cambridge together, and your guv'nor simply lumps in and upsets everything!"
"Well, I always thought that you and Mary were ... well, liked each other. That was why I was so puzzled when you got fond of Cecily. I felt certain that you'd marry Mary. Why don't you, Quinny? She's an awfully nice girl, and you and she are rather good pals, aren't you?" "I don't know, Gilbert.
If you love Cecily, she demands the whole of your life. Every bit of it. She consumes you.... Oh, I know this sounds like a penny dreadful, Quinny, but it's true. I've asked her to run away with me, but she won't come. She says she hates scandal and she likes her social position. My God, I feel sick when I see Jimphy with her ... like a damned big lobster putting his ... his claws about her.
It's in Ireland, but it isn't of Ireland!" Gilbert could always get at the centre of a thing. "Oxford and Cambridge have lots of faults," Gilbert had said, "but they're English faults. T.C.D. has lots of faults, but they're not Irish faults. Do you see what I mean, Quinny?
All the same, if I were to see Cecily now, I should probably want her as badly as ever." "You might, Quinny, but you wouldn't go on wanting her. You see, she wouldn't want you for very long, and my general opinion is that you can't keep on giving if you get nothing in return ... unless, of course, you're a one-eyed ass.
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