The feudal ownership of land did bring dignity, whereas the modern ownership of movables is reducing us again to a nomadic horde. We are reverting to the civilisation of luggage, and historians of the...
The bully and the victim never quite forget their first relations.
She hated war and liked soldiers—it was one of her amiable inconsistencies.
One doesn't come to Italy for niceness, one comes for life!
No doubt his wife and children were beautiful too, for people usually get what they already possess.
It will be generally admitted that Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.
It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.
If Wilcoxes hadn't worked and died in England for thousands of years, you and I couldn't sit here without having our throats cut. There would be no trains, no ships to carry us literary people about i...
I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere.
I suppose I shall have to live now
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the s...
He would not deceive himself so much. He would not – and this was the test – pretend to care about women when the only sex that attracted him was his own. He loved men and always had loved them. He lo...
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
He stretched out his hands as he sang, sadly, because all beauty is sad…The poem had done no ‘good’ to anyone, but it was a passing reminder, a breath from the divine lips of beauty, a nightingale bet...
He is rather a peculiar man. Again he hesitated, and then said gently: I think he would not take advantage of your acceptance, nor expect you to show gratitude. He has the merit—if it is one—of saying...
He had brought out the man in Alec, and now it was Alec’s turn to bring out the hero in him
He chanced to be in a lucid critical mood, and would not sympathize with exaltation.
God has put us on earth to love our neighbors and to show it, and He is omnipresent, even in India, to see how we are succeeding.
For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or--to put the thing less cynically--we may be better in new clean words, which have never been tainted b...
Athletes, he believed, were simple, straightforward people, cruel and brutal if you like, but never petty. They knocked you down and hurt you, and then went on their way rejoicing.