I Tietjens, który nie nienawidził nikogo, mając przed sobą prostolinijnego człowieka typu szkolnego kolegi, zaczął rozmyślać nad tym, jak to ludzkość traktowana jednostkowo była niemal zawsze sympatyc...
He had the very greatest admiration. He admire her for her truthfulness, for her cleanness of mind, and the clean-run-ness of her limbs, for her efficiency, for the fairness of her skin, for the gold...
In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little,...
Jest pan zadziwiający, jak na mężczyznę, który stara się zachowywać jak ukwiał!
Being a miner he sat on his heels more comfortably than on a chair
Przepraszam, że byłam dla pana nieuprzejma. Ale to naprawdę irytujące, że stoi się jak wypchany królik, podczas gdy mężczyzna odgrywa Prawdziwego Dżentelmena, chłodnego i zorganizowanego, z całą pozą...
From time to time we shall get up and go to the door and look out at the great moon and say: 'Why, it is nearly as bright as in Provence!' And then we shall come back to the fireside, with just the to...
But we who remain shall grow oldWe shall know the coldOf cheerlessWinter and the rain of Autumn and the stingOf poverty, of love despised and of disgraces,And mirrors showing stained and aging faces,...
What did you do on Armistice Night? My beloved is mine and I am his!
You have to wait together - for a week, for a year, for a lifetime, before the final intimate conversation may be attained ... and exhausted. So that ... That in effect was love.
You may ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings who have witnessed the sack of a city or the falling to pieces of a people to desire to set down what...
Człowiek nie musi żyć wśród mętów społeczeństwa, aby nie usłyszeć nic o mętach towarzystwa.
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
As Tietjens saw the world, you didn't talk. Perhaps you didn't even think about how you felt.
All feminine claws, he said to himself, are sheathed in velvet; but they can hurt a good deal if they touch you on the sore places of the defects of your qualities--even merely with the velvet.
It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.
Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to be able to tell a good lie in answer to a charge.
What did we want with an Empire! It
There, there, my dear boy,’ he said, ‘come and have a sloe gin. That’s the real answer to all beastly problems.