The Three Impostors Quotes

“He had meditated changing his lodgings; but now, on a judicial review of the case in all its bearings, his calmer judgment told him that the race of landladies is like to the race of the leaves, and that there was but little to choose between them.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Imposters

“By the mistaken benevolence of deceased relatives both young men were placed out of reach of hunger, and so, meditating high achievements, idled their time pleasantly away, and revelled in the careless joys of a Bohemianism devoid of the sharp reasoning of adversity.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“The idea of a man going about London haunted by the fear of meeting a young man with spectacles struck Dyson as supremely ridiculous;”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“Otuz yıldır," diye devam etti, "gerçeklerle boğuşuyorum; şimdi düş zamanı.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“Evet," dedi profesör, "sanırım öyle. Ya da sadece bir tesadüf. Böyle konularda hiçbir zaman tamamen emin olunamaz, biliyorsunuz. Tesadüf profesörü öldürdü.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“I shuddered at the idea of this incarnate fiend, whose soul is black with shocking crimes, mingling free and unobserved amongst the harmless crowds, meditating perhaps a new and more fearful cycle of infamies. I tell you, sir, that an awful being stalks through the streets, a being before whom the sunlight itself should blacken, and the summer air grow chill and dank.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“I have been grinding away at facts for thirty years; it is time for fancies.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“I have told you I was of sceptical habit; but though I understood little or nothing, I began to dread, vainly proposing to myself the iterated dogmas of science that all life is material, and that in the system of things there is no undiscovered land, even beyond the remotest stars, where the supernatural can find a footing. Yet there struck in on this the thought that matter is as really awful and unknown as spirit, that science itself but dallies on the threshold, scarcely gaining more than a glimpse of the wonders of the inner place.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors

“Unlike Dyson, he [Phillipps] walked fast, with his eye on the pavement, absorbed in his thoughts, and oblivious of the life around him; and he could not have told by what streets he had passed, when he suddenly lifted up his eyes and found himself in Leicester Square.”
― Arthur Machen, The Three Impostors