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...
A writer need not devour a whole sheep in order to know what mutton tastes like, but he must at least eat a chop. Unless he gets his facts right, his imagination will lead him into all kinds of nonsen...
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayers were more acceptable to God if he said them in his nightshirt than if he waited till he was dresse...
It is pleasure that lurks in the practice of every one of your virtues. Man performs actions because they are good for him, and when they are good for other people as well they are thought virtuous: i...
I hate you. I wish you was dead.
He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.
Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other a...
Can the law get blood out of a stone? I haven't any money.
Impropriety is the soul of wit.
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...
…I do not mind odious young men; it is when they are charming that I button up the pockets of my sympathy.
It requires the feminine temperament to repeat the same thing three times with unabated zest.
Her pain was so great that she could have screamed at the top of her voice. She had never known that one could suffer so much; and she asked herself desperately what she had done to deserve it.
Dying is a dull, dreary affair. my advice is that you have nothing whatever to with it.
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.