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The Lost World quotes
10 quotes from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle. Source: Project Gutenberg e-text #139 (public domain in the USA), the text this site’s reader shows. Each quote is copied exactly from that text and links to its passage in the reader; when this page was built, every quote was checked word for word against the reader’s text.
I'm like an old golf-ball--I've had all the white paint knocked off me long ago. Life can whack me about now, and it can't leave a mark. But a sportin' risk, young fellah, that's the salt of existence.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter VI
There are heroisms all round us waiting to be done. It's for men to do them, and for women to reserve their love as a reward for such men.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter I
Why on earth people who have something to say which is worth hearing should not take the slight trouble to learn how to make it heard is one of the strange mysteries of modern life.
The bent head, the averted eye, the faltering voice, the wincing figure--these, and not the unshrinking gaze and frank reply, are the true signals of passion.
My instincts are all against a woman being too frank and at her ease with me. It is no compliment to a man.
The individual must not monopolize what is meant for the world.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter IV
Brain, character, soul--only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.
There's many a man who never tells his adventures, for he can't hope to be believed.
— Lord John · Chapter X
There are strange red depths in the soul of the most commonplace man.
It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met.
— Spoken by a character · Chapter XI