Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he ca...
Like many other who have lived long in a great capital, she had strong feelings about the various railway termini. They are our gates to the glorious and unknown. Through them we pass out into adventu...
I knew you read the in the vac, he said in a low voice.Maurice felt uneasy.Then you understand - without me saying more - How do you mean?Durham could not wait. People were all around them, but with...
It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more t...
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself. He lets down as it were a bucket into his subconscious and draws up something which is normally beyond his reach. He mixes this thing with his nor...
People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
She had deemed it unwise to reveal her soul.
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling of fighting with their star or against it and in the whole universe the only really inter...
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima do...
I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
Things that are indelicate can sometimes be beautiful.
The sense of purity is a puzzling, and at times a fearful thing. It seems so noble, and it starts at one with morality. But it is a dangerous guide, and can lead us away not only from what is gracious...
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
George had turned at the sound of her arrival. For a moment he contemplated her, as one who had fallen out of heaven. He saw radiant joy on her face, he saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue...
The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
I believe in aristocracy. . . — if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power, based upon rank and influence, but an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerat...