How silly men were! Their part in procreation was so unimportant; it was the woman who carried the child through long months of uneasiness and bore it with pain, and yet a man because of his momentary...
...some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not.
The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.
No egoism is so insufferable as the Christian with regard to his soul.
Himself an ugly man, insignificantof appearance, he prized very highly comeliness in others.
How strange was the relation between parents and children! When they were small the parents doted on them, passed through agonies of apprehension at each childish ailment, and the children clung to th...
A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of...
Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.
Larry has been absorbed, as he wished, into that tumultuous conglomeration of humanity, distracted by so many conflicting interests, so lost in the world's confusion, so wistful of good, so cocksure o...
Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
The path to Salvation is as narrow and as difficult to walk as a razor's edge.
Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it r...
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
It was a pity that with his great qualities, his unselfishness and honor, his intelligence and sensibility, he should be so unlovable.
I always find it more difficult to say the things I mean than the things I don't.
Monsieur Foinet got up and made as if to go, but he changed his mind, and, stopping, put his hand on Philip's shoulder.But if you were going to ask me my advice, I should say: take your courage in bot...
Irony is a gift of the gods, the most subtle of all the modes of speech. It is an armour and a weapon; it is a philosophy and a perpetual entertainment; it is food for the hungry of wit and drink to t...
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.