Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there's no room for the present at all.
I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.
Evelyn Waugh: How do you get your main pleasure in life, Sir William?
But these young people have such an intelligent, knowledgeable surface, and then the crust suddenly breaks and you look down into the depths of confusion you didn't know existed.
Then they began saying, "Get hold of him. Put him in Mercury." Now as you know I have two sculptures by Brancusi and several pretty things and I did not want them to start getting rough, so I said, pa...
He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
To understand all is to forgive all.
The vision fades, the soul sickens, and the routine of survival starts again.
Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.''I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.
I know very few young people, but it seems to me that they are all possessed with an almost fatal hunger for permanence.
Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to , was his favourite book.
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Success in this world depends on knowing exactly how little effort each job is worth...distribution of energy...
Soon someone would say the fatal words, Well, I think it’s time for me to go to bed.
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us; perhaps you and I are types and...
All this fuss about sleeping together. For physical pleasure I'd sooner go to my dentist any day.
Old boy, said Grimes, you're in love.Nonsense!Smitten? said Grimes.No, no.The tender passion?No.Cupid's jolly little darts?No.Spring fancies, love's young dream?Nonsense!Not even a quickening of the p...
We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us but for ours to amuse them.
These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.
The human soul enjoys these rare, classical periods, but, apart from them, we are seldom single or unique; we keep company in this world with a hoard of abstractions and reflections and counterfeits o...