Lizzy Elmsworth was not a good-tempered girl, but she was too intelligent to let her temper interfere with her opportunities.
But his thoughts were not all dark. Undine's moods still infected him, and when she was happy he felt an answering lightness. Even when her amusements were too primitive to be shared he could enjoy th...
A woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself
No treasure-house of Atreus was ever as rich as a well-stored memory.
Medora Manson, in her prosperous days, inaugurated a "literary salon"; but it had soon died out owing to the reluctance of the literary to frequent it.
You see, Monsieur, it's worth everything, isn't it, to keep one's intellectual liberty, not to enslave one'spowers of appreciation, one's critical independence? It was because of that that I abandoned...
The turnings of life seldon show a sign-post; or rather, though the sign is always there, it is usually placed some distance back, like the notices that give warning of a bad hill or a level railway-c...
The people who take society as an escape from work are putting it to its proper use; but when it becomes the thing worked for it distorts all the relations of life.
She was BAD . . . always. They used to meet at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, said my mother, as if the scene of the offence added to the guilt of the couple whose past she was revealing.
It's rather clever of her to have made a specialty of devoting herself to dull people—the field is such a large one, and she has it practically to herself.
It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crow...
If you're as detached as that, why does the obsolete institution of marriage survive with you?Oh, it still has its uses. One couldn't be divorced without it.
Emigrate! As if a gentleman could abandon his own country! One could no more do that than one could roll up one's sleeves and go down into the muck.
Donnaz and kept him there a whole summer adorning the banqueting-room. But I advise you, little master, Bruno added, not to talk too loudly of your discovery; for we live in changed days, do you see,...
And of what account was anybody's past, in the huge kaleidoscope where all the social atoms spun around on the same plane?
Ah, he would take her beyond---beyond the ugliness, the pettiness, the attrition and corrosion of her soul.
Bursting with the belated eloquence of the inarticulate...happens to me on a daily basis!
In any really good subject one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.
ألا ترى أن محافظة المرء على حريته الفكرية، وحماية قدرته على الإبداع أو النقد المستقل يستحقان التضحية؟ لهذا السبب هجرت الصحافة و التجأت إلى أعمال رتيبة كالتدريس و أعمال السكرتارية. صحيح أن فيها كدح وشق...
A frivolous society can acquire significance through what its frivolity destroys.