Nevill Coghill Quotes

We're like two dogs in battle on their own;
They fought all day but neither got the bone,
There came a kite above them, nothing loth,
And while they fought he took it from them both."
From Chaucer's "The Knight's Tale ~ Geoffrey Chaucer

After millions of years of evolution, we start stupid cults of celebrity and feed the egos of maniacs until they take our money, fuck us in the arse, and then cut our throats. We should be cutting their throats! ~ Adam Nevill

But it would be broadcast, and in the great public theatre of his age; that unregulated market of braying narcissists, that Wild West of disinformation and fraud, that infinite sea of piracy, the great electorate where the constituency of billions voted their approval with a click of a mouse. The internet. It brought governments down and rewrote history ... ~ Adam Nevill

By a merging and interplay of identities between himself and his beautiful room, he might be preparing a ghost for the future; it had not occurred to him that there might have been a similar merging and coalescence in the past. Oliver Onions The Beckoning Fair One ~ Adam Nevill

What is so intriguing about this interplay between technology and the human imagination is that here we are dealing with the equation. As I imagine, so I become - and this is the very essence of magic. ~ Nevill Drury

For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw overboard for having the strength to swim to the other side. ~ Dorothy Nevill

Harner has impeccable credentials, both as an academic and as a practicing shaman. Without doubt (since the recent death of Mircea Eliade) the world's leading authority on shamanism. ~ Nevill Drury

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult. ~ Adam Nevill

Magic and religion are ultimately experiential in nature and should be treated as such. ~ Nevill Drury

There is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering. ~ Adam Nevill

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth ... ~ Dorothy Nevill

The world's refusal to leave me out of its activities made me consider its destruction. Bring on the wave. Please, the asteroid. ~ Adam Nevill

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human. ~ Adam Nevill

I believe in God, who can respond to prayers, to whom we can give trust and without whom life on this earth would be without meaning (a tale told by an idiot). I believe that God has revealed Himself to us in many ways and through many men and women, and that for us here in the West the clearest revelation is through Jesus and those that have followed him. ~ Nevill Francis Mott

Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God. At the same time, I am far from believing that science will ever give us the answers to all our questions. ~ Nevill Francis Mott

It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to its present dull level of conventional chatter. ~ Dorothy Nevill

But worst of all, he had become incurious. The ~ Adam Nevill

Conversation is now pretty well a lost art. ~ Dorothy Nevill

Where did fear end and wonder begin? ~ Adam Nevill

A day of fiscal reckoning was nigh. ~ Adam Nevill

He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic. ~ Adam Nevill

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am. ~ Adam Nevill

Through their discomforts Dom and Phil were missing everything of interest: the sudden strip marshes, the faces in the rock formations, the perfect lakes, the awesome måskoskårså valley grooved into the earth during the Ice Age, the golden eagle circling above it, and the views of a landscape it was impossible to believe existed in Europe. ~ Adam Nevill

He had been committed, absorbed and unthinking. Intentionally, because the story was so good. So good he felt like he'd been damaged by it, permanently. ~ Adam Nevill

But we change, he thought, we change as we are aged by the heartbreaker called life. ~ Adam Nevill

One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas. ~ Dorothy Nevill

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise. ~ Adam Nevill

Reality is where your consciousness is located ~ Nevill Drury

You sure? No one will know we're down there.' 'Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It'll be fine though. ~ Adam Nevill

If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world ... ~ Dorothy Nevill

He wanted to roar like a lion on a cement floor. And bellow like a polar bear with yellow fur worn down to pink skin against the tiles of an enclosure in a zoo. The disgust must come. Let it drip down the walls. Scorch the ceiling black with hatred. Liberate rage. ~ Adam Nevill

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria. ~ Adam Nevill

Seb, I'd be the last person to judge you, but what people think they have seen and experienced, and what they have actually seen and experienced, are often the same thing to them. And I'm less inclined to care about the difference than most people are.' That ~ Adam Nevill

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons. ~ Adam Nevill

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me. ~ Adam Nevill