«’Das Malen ist das einzig Positive, das ich habe. Selbst wenn ich alles andere noch so negativ sehe, kann ich wenigstens in den Bildern eine...

«Als man den Maler damals fragte, wie er verstanden werden wollte, antwortete er halb selbstironisch: ‘Vielleicht doch als Hüter der Tradition. Das ist mir dann...

“’If I’m going to be odiously conscious of how I may strike the fellow’, he reflected, ‘it was so little what I came out for...

«’Because if you get him you also get Mrs Newsome?’” ‘Yes.’”

Book Second, Kapitel I

In ignorance she could humour her fancy, and that proved a useful freedom

“All sort of things in fact now seemed to come over him, comparatively few of which his chronicler can hope for space to mention.”

„The Catholic Church, for Waymarsh – that was to say the enemy (…) – was exactly society (…) exactly in short Europe.“