Was this then Lent, pressing hard on the heels of Saturnalia? Not
I know nothing - nothing in the world - of the hearts of men. I only know that I am alone - horribly alone.
What did we want with an Empire! It
The world is full of places to which I want to return
But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.
She had Authority conferred on her. Metempsychosistically.
It is queer the fantastic things that quite good people will do in order to keep up their appearance of calm pococurantism.
It was business, and business may be presumed to cover quite a lot of bad taste.
If you live among dogs they’ll think you’ve the motives of a dog.
For Mrs. Satterthwaite interested herself - it was the only interest she had - in handsome, thin, and horribly disreputable young men.
There, there, my dear boy,’ he said, ‘come and have a sloe gin. That’s the real answer to all beastly problems.
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.
The Central Empires represented Roman Catholicism, the Allies Protestantism and Orthodoxy. Let them unite.
If you only would! He added rather diffidently: If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and...
By God!’ Christopher exclaimed. ‘I loathe your whole beastly buttered-toast, mutton-chopped, carpet-slippered, rum-negused comfort as much as I loathe your beastly Riviera-palaced, chauffeured, hydrau...
We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist. So, for a time, if such a passion come to fruition, the man will get what he wa...
Nulla dies felix—call no day fortunate till it be ended.
[W]e are almost always in one place with our minds somewhere quite other.
Yes, society must go on; it must breed, like rabbits. That is what we are here for. But then, I don't like society—much.
What distinguished man from the brutes was his freedom. When,