Some say that it is lack of imagination which makes men and women brutes. May it not be power of imagination? The interest of torturing is lessened, …

- Robert Smythe Hichens

London's like a black-browed brute that gets an unholy influence over you.

- Robert Smythe Hichens

People talk so much to me about the beauty of confidence. They seem to entirely ignore the much more subtle beauty of doubt. To believe is very dull.…

- Robert Smythe Hichens