William Alexander Gerhardie Quotes

   1895 - 1977

English novelist,  born  and educated in St Petersburg. His best- known books are the novels Futility (1922) and Polyglots (1925).

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

1925  Polyglots, ch.7.

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She even sighed offensively?as if she meant to charge me with the necessity of doing so.

William Alexander Gerhardie
— 1922  Futility, pt.3, ch.3.

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We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

William Alexander Gerhardie
— 1925  Polyglots, ch.14.

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