Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
Beauty is also a Gift of God, one of the most rare and precious, and we should be thankful if we are happy enough to possess it and thankful, if we are not, that others possess it for our pleasure.
Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
Mrs. MacAndrew shared the common opinion of her sex that a man is always a brute to leave a woman who is attached to him, but that a woman is much to blame if he does.
It gives him spiritual freedom. To him life is a tragedy and by his gift of creation he enjoys the catharsis a purging of pity and terror, Which Aristotle tells is the object of art. Everything is tra...
– Търся нещо, без да знам какво точно. Зная обаче, че за мен е много важно да го намеря и че намеря ли го, ще се успокоя. Може би монахините го знаят; когато съм с тях, чувствам, че пазят тайна, в коя...
The inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity. You demand unselfishness from others...
Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.
The rain fell alike upon the just and upon the unjust, and for nothing was there a why and a wherefore.
The illusion which man has that his will is free is so deeply rooted that I am ready to accept it. I act as though I were a free agent. But when an action is performed it is clear that all the forces...
Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamen...
She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?
Poor slut, I think she loves me,' said Gray, his eyes closed.
My instinct told me I'd be silly to fall in love with him, you know women are very unfortunate, so often when they fall in love they cease to be lovable, and I made up my mind to be on my guard.
Mary Ann did not like Miss Wilkinson and called her an old cat.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
Is it rash to assume that when a practised writer says a thing, he is more likely to mean what he says than what his commentators think he means?
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.