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Barry Pain
12 quotes
“Outside everything was uncannily visible in the light of the full moon, but here in the dark shaded alleys the night was conscious of itself.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) first seen 1901 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Moon-Slave", Stories in the Dark (London: Grant Richards, 1901) pp. 45–58
“In her fantastic mood she stretched her soft, clasped hands upward toward the moon. 'Sweet moon,' she said in a kind of mock prayer, 'make your white light come down in music into my dancing-room here, and I will dance most deliciously for you to see.' She flung her head backward and let her hands fall; her eyes were half closed, and her mouth was a kissing mouth. 'Ah! sweet moon,' she whispered, 'do this for me, and I will be your slave; I will be what you will.'”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The air seemed to be filled with the perfume of some bitter spice. Viola could fancy almost that she saw a smoldering campfire and heard far off the roar of some desolate wild beast. She let her long hair fall, raising the heavy strands of it in either hand as she moved slowly to the laden music. Slowly her body swayed with drowsy grace, slowly her satin shoes slid over the silver sand.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Once more the music came. This time it was a dance of caprice, pelting along over the violin-strings, leaping, laughing, wanton. Again an illusion seemed to cross her eyes. An old king was watching her, a king with the sordid history of the exhaustion of pleasure written on his flaccid face. A hook-nosed courtier by his side settled the ruffles at his wrists and mumbled, 'Ravissant! Quel malheur que la vieillesse!' It was a strange illusion. Faster and faster she sped to the music, stepping, spinning, pirouetting; the dance was light as thistle-down, fierce as fire, smooth as a rapid stream.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“On bitter nights in winter the moon called her and she came, when the breath was vapor, and the trees that circled her dancing-room were black, bare skeletons, and the frost was cruel.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How madly she danced that night!”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I shall leave this farm-house very soon. The people are all right, but they are people, and therefore insufferable.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) first seen 1916 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Diary of a God", in Collected Tales, vol. 1 (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1916) p. 266
“Anyone can prove anything except that anything’s worth proving.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Undying Thing", in Hugh Lamb (ed.) Gaslit Nightmares (London: Futura, 1988) pp. 1–24
“The baronet, in his old age, had been cast up by his vices on the shores of melancholy; heavy-eyed, gray-haired, bent, he seemed to pass through life as in a dream.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was so disrespectful that it was believed that he spoke truth.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Modernity kills ghostly romance.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Perhaps the prayer that is offered when the time for praying is over is more terribly pathetic than any other. Yet one might hesitate to say that this prayer was unanswered.”
Barry Pain (1864–1928) said by 1928 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source