You’re so sharp you’ll cut yourself if you don’t look out,
You don't know the difference between truth and make-believe. You never stop acting. It's second nature to you. You act when there's a party here. You act to the servants, you act to father, you act t...
When you're eighteen your emotions are violent, but they're not durable.
Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.
This did not surprise him, for he was beginning to realise that he was the creature of a God who appreciated the discomfort of his worshippers.
The past was finished; let the dead bury their dead.
The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.
The officers saluted as she passed and gravely bowed. They walked back across the courtyard and got into their chairs. She saw Waddington light a cigarette. A little smoke lost in the air, that was th...
Supposing there is no life everlasting. Think what it means if death is really the end of all things. They've given up all for nothing. They've been cheated. They're dupes.Waddington reflected for a l...
It is clear that men accept an immediate pain rather than an immediate pleasure, but only because they expect a greater pleasure in the future. Often the pleasure is illusory, but their error in calcu...
I had no illusions about you,' he said. 'I knew you were silly and frivolous and empty-headed. But I loved you. I knew that your aims and ideals were vulgar and commonplace. But I loved you. I knew th...
He was so pleasant that his fellow writers, his rivals and contemporaries, forgave him even the fact that he was a gentleman.
He refused tea, but Mrs. Crowley poured out a cup and handed it to him. 'You need not drink it, but I insist on your hoding it in your hand. I hat people who habitually deny themselves things.
For the same uprush of fancy which had shown him with all the force of mathematical demonstration that life had no meaning, brought with it another idea; and that was why Cronshaw, he imagined, had gi...
For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all...
Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?No. He hesitated and his voice was strange. I despise myself.
Beauty is an ecstacy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it.
To me he seemed one of those persons destined to failure of whom you wonder what purpose it can ever serve that they should have ben born.
You know, when one's in love,' I said, 'and things go all wrong, one's terribly unhappy and one thinks one won't ever get over it. But you'll be astounded to learn what the sea will do.'What do you me...
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach for the careless passer-by to pick up idly? Beauty is something wonderful and strange th...