I had no right to move out of my books and music, which was what I did when I met you
He lived on, miserable and misunderstood, as before, and increasingly lonely. One cannot write those words too often: Maurice’s loneliness: it increased.
Fed by neither Heaven nor by Earth he was going forward . . . He hadn't a God or a lover--the two usual incentives to virtue. But on he struggled with his back to ease, because dignity demanded it. Th...
Excuse my mistakes, realize my limitations. Life is not easy as we know it on the earth.
Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
He will work off his crudities in time. I rather mistrust young men who slip into life gracefully.
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?
You confuse what's important with what's impressive.
We are not in the law courts. There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
This is Ahab, that's Jezebel, said Evie, who was one of those who name animals after the less successful characters of Old Testament history.
There is only a certain amount of kindness in the world…just as there is a certain amount of light. We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to sav...
The haughty nephew ... and an even haughtier wife, both convinced that Germany was appointed by God to govern the world. Aunt July would come the next day, convinced that Great Britain had been appoin...
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say yesterday I was happy, today I am not.
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
She was no longer examining life, but being examined by it; she had become a real person.
Secrecy has this disadvantage: we lose the sense of proportion; we cannot tell whether our secret is important or not.
Ronny’s religion was of the sterilized Public School brand, which never goes bad, even in the tropics. Wherever he entered, mosque, cave or temple, he retained the spiritual outlook of the fifth form,...
Oh, Mr Hall, what an ungallant remark. Look at her lovely hair.''I like short hair best.''Why?''Because I can stroke it-' and he began to cry.
No, mother; no. She was really keen on Italy. This travel is quite a crisis for her. He found the situation full of whimsical romance: there was something half attractive, half repellent in the though...