Elliott, the costume too large now for his emaciated frame, looked like a chorus man in an early opera of Verdi’s.
El hombre encuentra siempre más fácil sacrificar su vida que aprender la tabla de multiplicar.
Don’t you think he may be pursuing an ideal that is hidden in a cloud of unknowing—like an astronomer looking for a star that only a mathematical calculation tells him exists?
Charm is essential. In the last two years I’ve got to know a good many prominent politicians and they’ve all got it. Some more and some less. But they can’t all have it by nature. That shows it can be...
C.-C.: Tell me frankly, Kitty, don't you think people make a lot of unnecessary fuss about love?LADY KITTY: It's the most wonderful thing in the world.C.-C.: You're incorrigible. Do you really think i...
And you dared to go counter to your father's wishes? They should have been a command to you. Give me one reason, only one, why, flinging decency to the winds, you demeaned yourself by becoming a baker...
And then he felt the misery of his life. It seemed to his childish mind that this unhappiness must go on for ever.
All his plans were suddenly overthrown, and the existence, so elaborately pictured, was no more than a dream which would never be realized. He was free once more. Free! He need give up none of his pro...
Act so that every action of yours should be capable of becoming an universal rule of action for all men.
Acho uma grandíssima tolice dizer que pode existir amor sem paixão; as pessoas que afirmam que o amor pode perdurar depois de esgotada a paixão referem-se a outro sentimento, afeição, bondade, comunhã...
One could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.
It has this compensation (among, let us admit, not a few others), that sometimes it gives you the opportunity of seeing what was the outcome of certain events you had witnessed long ago. You had given...
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.
Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality and to the onlooker were but an undistinguishable part of the wat...
To achieve great success in literature you must have a certain coarseness in your composition... Really to move and influence men you must have complete understanding, and you can only get that if you...
They don't want clever men; clever men have ideas, and ideas cause trouble; they want men who have charm and tact and who can be counted on never to make a blunder.
There are people who cannot read Tom Jones. I am not thinking of those who never read anything but the newspapers and the illustrated weeklies, or of those who never read anything but detective storie...
She must really love you to distraction.It's rather a funny sensation, you know, he answered, wrinkling a perplexed forehead. I haven't the smallest doubt that if I really left her, definitely, she wo...
Owing to the rise of prices Mrs. Hudson was able to get more for her rooms than in my day, and I think in her modest way she was quite well off. But of course people wanted a lot nowadays. You wouldn’...