Xélucha and Others Quotes

“The habit is now confirmed in me of spending the greater part of the day in sleep, while by night I wander far and wide through the city under the sedative influence of a tincture which has become necessary to my life”
― M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

“However, the human female can be pretty queer and wayward; and her heart is like spittle on the palm that the Tartar slaps — no telling which way it will pitch.”
― M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

“You don’t know that my books do good?’

‘No, I don’t know. I know that men are already getting past “novels” without novelty, and that, as soon as women cease to be children, the last “novel” will be written. Yours are entertaining, I believe —”
― M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others

“Of ignorant people I am accustomed to consider the mere scientist the most ignorant!”
― M.P. Shiel, Xélucha and Others