Moonshine Quotes
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Transcendental moonshine.
thomas carlyle— 1851 Of the romantic impulses that had led Sterling to the priesthood. The Life of John Sterling, pt.1, ch.15.
Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I’d take Scotch. It’s the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.
william faulkner— As quoted in National Observer (3 February 1964).
I confess, without shame, that I am sick and tired of fighting — its glory is all moonshine; even success the most brilliant is over dead and mangled bodies, with the anguish and lamentations of distant families, appealing to me for sons, husbands, and fathers ... it is only those who have never heard a shot, never heard the shriek and groans of the wounded and lacerated ... that cry aloud for more blood, more vengeance, more desolation.
william tecumseh sherman— Letter (May 1865)
All I say is that I think it is damned unlikely that anything like a central cosmic will, a spirit world, or an eternal survival of personality exist. They are the most preposterous and unjustified of all the guesses which can be made about the universe, and I am not enough of a hair-splitter to pretend that I don't regard them as arrant and negligible moonshine. In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of radical evidence I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to Robert E. Howard (16 August 1932), in Selected Letters 1932-1934 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, p.57.
Fairies, black, grey, green, and white, You moonshine revellers, and shades of night.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor (published 1602), Act V, scene 5, line 41.
