Roy has always sincerely believed what everyone else believed at the moment.
Mrs. Strickland was plainly nervous. Well, tell us your news, she said. I saw your husband. I'm afraid he's quite made up his mind not to return. I paused a little. He wants to paint.
Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.
Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power. CIX
Larry sat with his arm stretched out along the top of the front seat. His shirt cuff was pulled back by his position and displayed his slim, strong wrist and the lower part of his brown arm lightly co...
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
It was strange that Walter with all his cleverness should have so little sense of proportion. Because he had dressed a doll in gorgeous robes and set her in a sanctuary to worship her, and then discov...
It was one of the queer things of life that you saw a person every day for months and were so intimate with him that you could not imagine existence without him; then separation came, and everything w...
If there's anything I dislike it's the violin, she answered. Why one should want to hear anyone scrape the hairs of a horse's tail against the guts of a dead cat is something I shall never understand.
I'm looking for something and I don't quite know what it is. But I know that it's very important for me to know it, and if I did it would make all the difference. Perhaps the nuns know it; when I'm wi...
I wish I could make you see how much fuller the life I offer you is than anything you have a conception of. I wish I could make you see how exciting the life of the spirit is and how rich in experienc...
I wasn't frightened for myself; I was indignant; it was the wickedness of it that broke me.
I was interested in this because it bore out an opinion of mine that philosophy is an affair of character rather than of logic: the philosopher believes not according to evidence, but according to his...
I saw that Roy was not inclined to be amused. I was not annoyed, for I am quite used to people not being amused at my jokes. I often think that the purest type of the artist is the humorist who laughs...
I ought to have lived in the eighteen hundreds,' he said himself. 'What I want is a patron. I should have published my poems by subscription and dedicated them to a nobleman. I long to compose rhymed...
I never expected you to love me, I didn't see any reason that you should, I never thought myself very lovable.
Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue;
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.
A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.
A Unitarian very earnestly disbelieves in almost everything that anybody else believes, and he has a very lively sustaining faith in he doesn't quite know what.