What d'you suppose I care if I'm a gentleman or not? If I were a gentleman I shouldn't waste my time with a vulgar slut like you.
A sensible person does not read a novel as a task. He reads it as a diversion. He is prepared to interest himself in the characters and is concerned to see how they act in given circumstances, and wha...
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
His experience of life in an office had made him determine never to have anything more to do with one ...
I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that he was watching us. As soon as we had passe...
She loved him now with a new love because he had made her suffer.
There is only one thing about which I am certain and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain.
A little smoke lost in the air, that was the life of a man.
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
Any nation that thinks more of its ease and comfort than its freedom will soon lose its freedom and the ironical thing about it is that it will lose its ease and comfort too.
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
Schools are made for the average. The holes are all round, and whatever shape the pegs are they must wedge in somehow. One hasn't time to bother about anything but the average.
He was left a good deal to himself. He had been inclined to talkativeness, but gradually he became silent. He began to think of the difference between himself and others.
The passing moment is all we can be sure of it is only common sense to extract its utmost value from it.
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.
The tragedy of life is that sometimes we get what we want.
The crown of literature is poetry.
I have an idea that 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. They are strangers in their b...
He yearned above all things for experience andfelt himself ridiculous because at his age he had not enjoyedthat which all fiction taught him was the most importantthing in life; but he had the unfortu...
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.