Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

- William Hurrell Mallock

If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.

- William Hurrell Mallock

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

- William Hurrell Mallock

Socialism may be worthless as a scheme, but it is not meaningless as a symptom. Rousseau's theory of the origin of society, of the social contract, a…

- William Hurrell Mallock

No one is fit to encounter an adversary's case successfully unless he can make it for a moment his own, unless he can put it more forcibly than the a…

- William Hurrell Mallock

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

- William Hurrell Mallock

Landscapes, even when their general type is similar, are capable of as many expressions as the same type of human face, and, without our being able f…

- William Hurrell Mallock

The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the cl…

- William Hurrell Mallock