Something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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...
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.
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
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.
You must let bygones be bygones.
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...
Whenever he started a book with two solitary travellers riding along the brink of a desperate ravine he knew he was safe. The
When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves
When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.
We're all so dreadfully tired of being goddesses. For centuries foolish men have set us up on a pedestal and vowed they were unworthy to touch the hem of our garments. And it is so dull.
We paint from within outward - if we force our vision on the world it calls us great painters; if we don't it ignores us; but we are the same. We don't attach any meaning to greatness or smallness. Wh...
Very few people know where to look for happiness; fewer still find it.
There was neither good nor bad there. There were just facts. It was life.
There is nothing so difficult as to persuade men that they are ignorant. Bertha, exaggerating the seriousness of the affair, thought it charlatanry to undertake a post without knowledge and without ca...
Then the horrid fact was disclosed that the new head had a mania for general information. He had doubts about the utility of examinations on subjects which had been crammed for the occasion. He wanted...
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...
The disadvantages and dangers of the author’s calling are offset by an advantage so great as to make all its difficulties, disappointments, and maybe hardships, unimportant...Nothing befalls him that...
The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She...