Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
One does not travel, any more than one falls in love, to collect material. It is simply part of one's life...
If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty would be my name. For the rest: my loves, my hates, down even to my deepest desires, I can no longer say whether these emo...
I had been there before; I knew all about it.
You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
No one is ever holy without suffering.
It would be a dull world if we all thought alike.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
Conversation should be like juggling; up go the balls and plates, up and over, in and out, good solid objects that glitter in the footlights and fall with a bang if you miss them.
There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.
That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.
He wasn't a complete human being at all. He was a tiny bit of one, unnaturally developed; something in a bottle, an organ kept alive in a laboratory. I thought he was a sort of primitive savage, but h...
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate th...
Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.
O God, make me good, but not yet.
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. These memories, which are my life—for we possess nothing certainly except the past—were always with me. Like the...