Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
“The Devil's out of fashion.”
Source: I Capture the Castle
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English novelist and playwright 1896–1990Related quotes

Source: Fourth Mansions (1969), Ch. 4
Context: "There was a later time when sincere men tried to build an organization as wide as the world to secure the peace of the world. It had been tried before and it had failed before. Perhaps if it failed this time it would not be tried again for a very long while. The idea of the thing was attacked by good and bad men, in good faith and bad. The final realization of it was so close that it could be touched with the fingertips. A gambler wouldn't have given odds on it either way. It teetered, and it almost seemed as though it would succeed. Then members of that group interfered."
"And it failed, O'Claire?"
"No. It succeeded, Foley, as in the other case. It succeeded in so twisted a fashion that the Devil himself was puzzled as to whether he had gained or lost ground by it. And he isn't easily puzzled."

“Such excess of passion
is quite out of fashion”
Source: Amphigorey

“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
"George II".
Four Georges (1860-1861)
Source: Four Georges and the English Humourists

“Good melody is never out of fashion”
A Practical Discourse on some Priciples of Hymn-singing Collected Essays no 22.
Essays
“Books make dangerous devils out of women.”
Source: The Conquest
“wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it”
Source: The Joy of Painting with Bob Ross, Vol. 29

“1537. Fine Cloth is never out of Fashion.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)