Arthur Desmond Quotes

United Kingdom, Politician
1859 – January, 29, 1929.

Arthur Desmond, also Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard (speculated), Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg, and Gavin Gowrie, was a British-born politician, poet, and author.

Also known as Poet, Writer

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.

Arthur Desmond
- Beauty
- Wealth
- Goodness
Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Arthur Desmond
- Women
- Ambition
- Stumbling

Good or bad I propose to be something great!

Arthur Desmond
- Good
- Great
- Bad
Most women you know are very much interested in the man who is reputed to be deeply admired by other women.

Arthur Desmond
- Man
- Interested
- Admired
There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Arthur Desmond
- Great
- Men
- Wars
Why should a man deliberately encircle his mind with needless prison walls. No man can reach highest excellence who puts limits to his own thought.

Arthur Desmond
- Mind
- Thought
- Limits
Women find little pleasure in the society of women.

Arthur Desmond
- Women
- Society
- Pleasure
Unfitness for war is unfitness for existence.

Arthur Desmond
- War
- Existence
- Unfitness

Why should we not go to the extremes if we desire to play a part in the great world drama?...to go to the extremes is ever symptomatic of genius and greatness. Weakness is to compromise, to hesitate, to be halfhearted.

Arthur Desmond
- Drama
- Weakness
- Extremes
The reason there are no great poets and writers now is because there are no great deeds or heroes to write about. The world is becoming tame and sad and dreary.

Arthur Desmond
- Reason
- Writers
- Heroes