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?
Philip had a practical outlook and he grew impatient with the theories which resulted in no action.
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...
One of her most amiable traits was that she was never affronted by the naked truth.
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...
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...
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 not very comfortable to have the gift of being amused at one's own absurdity.
It is hard that a man's exterior should tally so little sometimes with his soul.
In the first place it's not true that people improve as you know them better: they don't. That's why one should only have acquaintances and never make friends. An acquaintance shows you only the best...
I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.
I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
I have written this because it may have escaped the notice of many who have admired her [Marie Tempest] brilliant performances that they are due not only to her natural gifts...but to patience, assidu...
I don't believe in the god of the Christians who gave his son in order to save mankind. That's a myth. But why should it have arisen if it didn't express some deep-seated intuition in men? I don't kno...
I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their expression and obscure their personality with powder, rouge, and lipstick.
I did not pay much attention, and since it seemed to prolong itself I began to meditate upon the writer’s life. It is full of tribulation. First he must endure poverty and the world’s indifference; th...
How much easier life would be if people were all black or all white and how much simpler it would be to act in regard to them!