Alec-Tweedie Quotes

“Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way ...”

— Alec-Tweedie

“Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books.”

— Alec-Tweedie

“Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket.”

— Alec-Tweedie

“Theatrical work means too much work or none.”

— Alec-Tweedie

Civilisation makes us all as alike as peas in a pod, and it is the very uncouth - uncivilised, if you will - element which individualises nations.

— Alec-Tweedie

“The most powerful book in the world at the beginning of the twentieth century is the check-book.”

— Alec-Tweedie

Marriage with love is entering heaven with one's eyes shut, but marriage without love is entering hell with them open.

— Alec-Tweedie

No Southern people ever seem to possess the energy of their Northern brothers, and in Sicily a dolce far niente life is much enjoyed. Time is no object. According to Pliny, Aristhomacus watched the life of the bee carefully for fifty-eight years, which is just the sort of work a Sicilian of to-day would like.

— Alec-Tweedie

“Organised brigandage has ceased to exist, but murder and highway robbery are still far too common in the less frequented districts. Travellers rarely suffer to-day, however. It is the wealthy inhabitants who run risks at the hand of the mafia, or lawless Sicilian.”

— Alec-Tweedie

He who buys what he does not want ends in wanting what he cannot buy.

— Alec-Tweedie

“We all try to be alike in our youth, and individual in our middle age ... although we sometimes mistake eccentricity for individuality.”

— Alec-Tweedie

“Adversity is the touchstone of character: it is not in success but in misfortune that hidden powers bear fruit.”

— Alec-Tweedie

“Never has the theatrical profession been more overcrowded than at the present moment.”

— Alec-Tweedie