Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by William Gerhardie

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Russian novelist William Gerhardie.

Last updated on April 14, 2025.

William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright. His first novel, Futility (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.

Russian - Novelist | November 21, 1895 - July 15, 1977

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If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.

William Gerhardie

There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.

William Gerhardie