The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (Expanded Version): Quotes

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• "It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."

  Erskine · Chapter I

• "All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."

  Erskine · Chapter I

• "The only apostle who did not deserve proof was St. Thomas, and St. Thomas was the only apostle who got it."

  Cyril Graham · Chapter I

• "You forget that a thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

  Erskine · Chapter I

• "Every disciple takes away something from his master."

  The narrator · Chapter V

• "No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."

  The narrator · Chapter V