Илюзия е, че младостта е щастлива, илюзия на онези, които са я загубили; младите страдат от безброй лъжливи представи, които са им внушавани, и всеки път, щом се докоснат до истината, тя ги наранява....
We cannot get it out of our heads that there is something comic in taking art so seriously.
Had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin;
Why did you look at the sunset?'Philip answered with his mouth full:Because I was happy.
When death stood round the corner, taking lives like a gardener digging up potatoes, it was foolishness to care what dirty things this person or that did with his body.
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
They had grown in three years and were now long-legged, skinny, vivacious little creatures, with little at present of their mother’s beauty, but with nice manners and an insatiable curiosity.
They had furtive eyes and weak chins. There was no wickedness in them, but only pettiness and vulgarity.
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?
People don't want reasons to do what they'd like to. They want excuses.
Our wise old church...has discovered that if you will act as if you believed belief will be given to you; if you pray with doubt, but pray with sincerity, your doubt will be dispelled; if you will sur...
Oh, God, send down fire from heaven to consume the blasphemer, said Lawson. What has nature got to do with it? No one knows what’s in nature and what isn’t! The world sees nature through the eyes of t...
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existe...
Mary Ann did not like Miss Wilkinson and called her an old cat.
MarthaI thought you loved her.BernardEnough to want her happiness above all things.MarthaYou are forty-five, aren’t you? I forgot that for a moment.BernardDear Martha. You have such an attractive way...
Love will be stronger and last longer if there are impediments to its gratification.
Life is short, nature is hostile, and man is ridiculous; but oddly enough most misfortunes have their compensations, and with a certain humour and a good deal of horse-sense one can make a fairly good...
Larry smiled a trifle ruefully.Like Rolla [who is?], I've come too late into a world too old. I should have been born in the Middle Ages when faith was a matter of course; then my way would have been...
It was difficult to understand that he would not come into the bungalow again and that when he got up in the morning she would not hear him take his bath in the Suchow tub. He was alive and now he was...
It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched, for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled into them, and e...