When a moral sense begins to rot it is worse than when you had none.
You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lu...
What a bursting heart of gratitude and triumph as the ravening monster slowly paced down the arm with gripping steps and pounced upon his breakfast! The rest of the day was a glow of pleasure, a kind...
War is like a fire, Agnes. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about any one thing in particular.
They killed
The fortress was entered by tunnels in the rock, and, over the entrance to each tunnel, there was a notice which said: EVERYTHING NOT FORBIDDEN IS COMPULSORY
The Queen dried her tears and looked at him, smiling like a spring shower. In a minute they were kissing, feeling like the green earth refreshed by rain. They thought that they understood each other o...
It is difficult to write about a real person.
He could do what all men wanted to, that is, fly
Made of stone. It had no windows and only one door, through which you had to crawl.
All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end, as my famous Civilization was, contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.
Wars are never fought for one reason, he said. They are fought for dozens of reasons, in a muddle.
The Destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out of separate trees.
People are dupes, and wicked too. That is what makes it interesting to get them better.
Nay, said Sir Lancelot ...for once shamed may never be recovered.
It is generally the trustful and optimistic people who can afford to retreat. The loveless and faithless ones are compelled by their pessimism to attack. Arthur
I never could stomach these nationalists,’ he exclaimed. ‘The destiny of Man is to unite, not to divide. If you keep on dividing you end up as a collection of monkeys throwing nuts at each other out o...
I know hardly anything about Galahad except that everybody dislikes him.Dislikes him?They complain about him being inhuman.Lancelot considered his cup.He is inhuman, he said at last. But why should he...
He saw her as the passionate spirit of innocent youth, now beleaguered by the trick which is played on youth - the trick of treachery in the body, which turns flesh into green bones. Her stupid finery...
Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?