A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to gover...
A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?
Peace of mind: Thou shalt have it only, the answer seemed to come to me, when thou has ceased to desire it.
Hay cierta elegancia en malgastar el tiempo -repuso Ashenden-. Cualquier cretino es capaz de despilfarrar dinero, pero cuando uno gasta su propio tiempo tiene el placer de tirar una cosa que no tiene...
When they found that he was not supercilious they told him long yarns of the distant journeys of their youth.
They threw this eager vitality of theirs into a vehement striving after the ineffable.
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.
He knew that he was at the mercy of his emotions: an accidental kindness touched him so much that sometimes he did not venture to speak in order not to betray the unsteadiness of his voice.
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Don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when th...
And then the critics, going back to the novels of his maturity, found that their English had a nervous, racy vigour that eminently suited the matter.
You want to taste sugar, you don’t want to become sugar. What is individuality but the expression of our egoism? Until the soul has shed the last trace of that it cannot become one with the Absolute.
You poor lonely boy,' she cried, 'it's so dreadful for you to have no parents.'Well, as my mother was a whore, and my father a drunk, I daresay I don't miss much.
With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.
Why d’you read then? Partly for pleasure, and because it’s a habit and I’m just as uncomfortable if I don’t read as if I don’t smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it wi...
Why do you read then?'Partly for pleasure, because it's a habit and I'm just as uncomfortable if I don't read as if I don't smoke, and partly to know myself. When I read a book I seem to read it with...
When I've seen you go into an empty room I've sometimes wanted to open the door suddenly, but I've been afraid to in case I found nobody there.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has meaning for me, and it becomes part of me; I’ve got out of the book a...
What on earth did you want with an early Christian sarcophagus, Elliot?To put myself in it, my dear fellow. It was of very good design, and I thought it would balance the font on the other side of the...
What do the circumstances of your life matter if your dreams make you lord paramount of time and space.