One of her most amiable traits was that she was never affronted by the naked truth.
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life...
Of course schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average. Then
Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
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...
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.
I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his li...
He thought to himself that there could be no greater torture in the world than at the same time to love and to contemn.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
I am willing to take life as a game of chess in which the first rules are not open to discussion. No one asks why the knight is allowed his eccentric hop, why the castle may only go straight and the b...
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
Milk is very nice, especially with a drop of brandy in it, but the domestic cow is only too glad to be rid of it. A swollen udder is very uncomfortable
The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Wasn’t my fault, it was the circumstances. Can’t you forgive me?