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Louis Bromfield
6 quotes
“Truth may be found in the heart of a philosopher but seldom in the figures of a statistician; it is far too delicate a thing to be pinned down to columns of numbers on ruled paper.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) first seen 1920 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Work of Robert Nathan (1920)
“Much of the material is controversial, but if controversy means the stimulation of thought and ideas, so much the better. It is only thus that the citizens of a republic may protect themselves from the evils threatening them from within their borders as well as those which threaten from beyond.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) first seen 1953 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Author's Note" (1953) in A New Pattern for a Tired World (1954), p. xxv
“She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“She had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had a feeling that somewhere in the course of her life something had happened to her, something terrible which in the end had given her a great understanding and clarity of mind. He knew, too, almost at once, on the day she had driven up to the door of the cottage, that she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since . . . that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere she had learned all this. She was like a woman to whom nothing could ever again happen.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I was brought up to look upon falling in love as something natural...something that was pleasant and natural and amusing. I've been in love before, casually, the way young Frenchmen are...but in earnest, too, because a Frenchman can't help surrounding a thing like that with sentiment and romance. He can't help it. If it were just ... just something shameful and nasty, he couldn't endure it. They don't have affairs in cold blood the way I've heard men talk about such things since I've come here. It makes a difference, Mrs. Pentland, if you look at things in the light they do. I've learned now, and it is a thing which needs learning, the most important thing in all life. The French are right about it. They make a fine, wonderful thing of love.”
Louis Bromfield (1896–1956) said by 1956 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source