Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way. - Alec-Tweedie
Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.
- Alec-Tweedie
Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment. - Alec-Tweedie
Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open. - Alec-Tweedie
Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit. - Alec-Tweedie
Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations. - Alec-Tweedie
Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no obje… - Alec-Tweedie
No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no obje…
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books. - Alec-Tweedie
Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.
Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely… - Alec-Tweedie
Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely…
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book. - Alec-Tweedie
The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.
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