Book detail: The Black Prince is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
The book follows the life and adventures of a young prince during the 14th century.
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“I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.”
“I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.”
“Those who occasion loss of dignity are hard to forgive.”
“Sometimes one has got to become monstrous in order to survive.”
“The room, the wall, trembled with precision, as if the inanimate world were about to utter a word.”
“I'm terribly in love with you. But please don't worry about it.”
“I'm totally unworthy of this love which you are offering to me.”
“But I have, I suppose, become through the power of love, awful, relentless.”
“Is that a quotation?" "Only from me.”
“Most friendships are a sort of frozen and undeveloping semi-hostility.”
“You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head." "Well, I live in my head.”
“I know people can be awful dooms for each other.”
“Coming events do cast shadows.”
“However one must ask not just, is it amusing, is it exciting, but is it a work of art?”
“I'm not like other people, my life just doesn't work, it never has.”
“Life is horrible, horrible, horrible, said the philosopher.”
“The young are self-satisfied really and utterly ruthless.”
“The book is quite serious and quite funny. (Most novels are.)”
“But what words exactly did he use? People who aren't writers never describe things exactly.”
“I'm not interested. I never liked him. He's some sort scoundrel.”
“You get so worked up and flowery! You sound as if you were quoting something all the time!”
“Give yourself to these great works of art. They suffice for a lifetime.”
“A marriage is a very secret place.”
“Tuesday? My whole concept of the future had crumpled.”
“I know time doesn't heal. That's the silliest idea of all.”
“That art gives charm to terrible things is perhaps its glory, perhaps its curse. Art is a doom.”
“Only stories and magic really endure.”