Quotes on Desertion

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

She mixes religion with desertion to make it sound noble.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.

Sorry, but retirement offends me. You don’t just stop fighting in the middle of a war because your legs hurt. So why do you get to stop working in the middle of your life just because your prostate hurts? That’s desertion.