SparkNotes Shopping Cart  |     |  Checkout
Brought to you by Barnes and Noble
  Home : English : Literature Study Guides : The Fountainhead : Important Quotations Explained
The Fountainhead
  
Click Here
Important Quotations Explained
  1. When they lay in bed together it was—as it had to be . . . an act of violence. . . . it was the moment made of hatred, tension, pain.
  2. [Y]ou’ve gone beyond the probable and made us see the possible, but possible only through you. Because your figures are more devoid of contempt of humanity than any work I’ve ever seen. . . . I came for a simple, selfish reason . . . to seek the best.
  3. He was not the corrupt publisher of a popular empire. He was an aristocrat aboard a yacht. He looked, she thought, like what one believes an aristocrat to be when one is young: a brilliant kind of gaiety without guilt.
  4. Howard, I’m a parasite. I’ve been a parasite all my life . . . I have fed on you and all the men like you who lived before we were born. . . . if they hadn’t existed I wouldn’t have known how to put stone to stone. . . . I have taken that which was not mine and given nothing in return.
  5. Tell man that he must live for others. . . . Not a single one of them has ever achieved it and not a single one ever will. His every living impulse screams against it. But don’t you see what you accomplish? . . . He’ll obey. . . . Use big vague words. ‘Universal Harmony’—‘Eternal Spirit’— ‘Divine Purpose’—‘Nirvana’—‘Paradise’—‘Racial Supremacy’—‘The Dictatorship of the Proletariat.’
Help | Feedback | Make a request | Report an error | Send to a friend
 
Read the complete texts of Shakespeare's plays along with an easy to understand translation.
More...
 
No Fear English Grammar is a step-by-step guide to English grammar presented in a fresh, lively tutorial.
More...
 
 
Go to top