I think I can tell you. I’ve always felt that there was something pathetic in the founders of religion who made it a condition of salvation that you should believe in them. It’s as though they needed...
I respect him. He has brains and character; and that, I may tell you, is a very unusual combination.
I don't ask you to forgive me. I don't ask you to love me as you used to love me. But couldn't we be friends?
I do not know if others are like myself, but I am conscious that I cannot contemplate beauty long.
I do not believe that I am a vindictive man, but when the immortal gods take a hand in the matter it is pardonable to observe the results with complacency.
How the gods must have chuckled when they added Hope to the evils with which they filled Pandora's box, for they knew very well that this was the cruellest evil of them all, since it is Hope that lure...
His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything. It was just the same now as if he had never lived.
Here was food for reflection: Kitty had never heard the Chinese spoken of as anything but decadent, dirty, and unspeakable. It was as though the corner of a curtain were lifted for a moment, and she c...
Her painting was vaporous and unsubstantial, but it had a flowerlike grace and even a certain careless elegance.
Her happiness, sometimes almost more than she could bear, renewed her beauty. Just before she married, beginning to lose her first freshness, she had looked tired and drawn. The uncharitable said that...
He wondered whether he had done right. He was dissatisfied with himself and with all his circumstances. He asked himself dully whether whenever you got your way you wished afterwards that you hadn't
He was no longer the awkward man of social intercourse, who was sufficiently conscious of his limitations not to talk of what he did not understand, and sincere enough not to express admiration for wh...
He took you by force–yes, he was drunk at the time. It’s not the first time that’s happened to a woman and it won’t be the last time.
He taught that we are all greater than we know and that wisdom is the means to freedom. He taught that it is not essential to salvation to retire from the world, but only to renounce the self. He taug...
He could as little escape her as the cause can escape the effect.
And you call yourself an English gentleman,' she exclaimed, savagely.'No, that's a thing I've never done in all my life.
And what is that going to lead to?The acquisition of knowledge, he smiled.It doesn't sound very practical.Perhaps it isn't and on the other hand perhaps it is. But it's enormous fun.
And then he felt the misery of his life. It seemed to his childish mind that this unhappiness must go on for ever.
An awful lot of hokum is talked about love, you know. An importance is ascribed to it that is entirely at variance with fact. People talk as though it were self-evidently the greatest of human values....
Aloof on her mountain top she considered the innumerable activities of men. She had a wonderful sense of freedom from all earthly ties, and it was such an ecstasy that nothing in comparison with it ha...