I'm afraid you've thought me a bigger fool than I am.
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole life. It is not very pleasant to realize that to you it was only an episode.
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance,...
You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.
You're beginning to dislike me, aren't you? Well, dislike me. It doesn't make any difference to me now.
You cannot write unless you write much.
It’s hard not to be impatient with the absurdity of the young; they tell us that two and two make four as though it had never occurred to us, and they’re disappointed if we can’t share their surprise...
I'm one of the few persons I ever met who are able to learn from experience.
I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon the girl I was I hate myself. But I never had a chance. I'm going to bring up my daug...
Human beings filled him with disgust.
He had always had a passion for life and the idealism he had come across seemed to him for the most part a cowardly shrinking from it. The idealist withdrew himself because he could not suffer the jos...
He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; m...
They ordered punch. They drank it. It was hot rum punch. The pen falters when it attempts to treat of the excellence thereof; the sober vocabulary, the sparse epithet of this narrative, are inadequate...
The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.
It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
The Americans, who are the most efficient people on the earth, have carried [phrase-making] to such a height of perfection and have invented so wide a range of pithy and hackneyed phrases that they ca...
I have great affection for you, Roy I answered, but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with.
He had violent passions, and on occasion desire seized his body so that he was driven to an orgy of lust, but he hated the instincts that robbed him of his self-possession. I think, even, he hated the...
Life isn't long enough for love and art.
Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature and the error is ineradicable.