There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The most insignificant of Strickland's works suggests a personality which is strange, tormented, and complex; and it is this surely which prevents even those who do not like his pictures from being in...
The morning drew on and the sun touched the mist so that it shone whitely like the ghost of snow on a dying star.
The experience of life shows that people are constantly doing things which must lead to disaster, and yet by some chance manage to evade the result of their folly.
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...
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
Roy has always sincerely believed what everyone else believed at the moment.
Perhaps his taciturnity hid a contempt for the human race which had abandoned the great dreams of his youth and now wallowed in sluggish ease; or perhaps these thirty years of revolution had taught hi...
People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
Oh, my dear, you musn’t be offended just because I’ve taken away from you the satisfaction of thinking that you have been deceiving me all these months.
Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.Didn't you mean them?At the moment.
Oh, it's always the same,' she sighed, 'if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.
Is that what we come into the world for, to hurry to an office, and work hour after hour till night, then hurry home and dine and go to a theatre? Is that how I must spend my youth? Youth lasts so sho...
In business sharp practice sometimes succeeds, but in art honesty is not only the best but the only policy.
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'm afraid it sounds very rude, but I hope from the bottom of my heart that I shall never set eyes on any of you again.'pg 193
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 suppose it had never struck him that, Ischia, which he looked at every evening to see what the weather would be like the next day, or Vesuvius, pearly in the dawn, had anything to do with him at all...
I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination. I don't suppose you know what he is doing here, because I don't think he's very expansive with you....