How happy life would be if an undertaking retained to the end the delight of its beginning, if the dregs of a cup of wine were as sweet as the first sip.
His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless; he was vain of the wider knowledge he had acquired from the perusal of so...
He was thankful not to have to believe in God, for then such a condition of things would be intolerable; one could reconcile oneself to existence only because it was meaningless.(the whole world was l...
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
Dinner a time when . . . one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely.
Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.
Patsy had asked him if he had had adventures in Paris and he had truthfully answered no. It was a fact that he had done nothing; his father thought he had had a devil of a time and was afraid he had c...
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
Writing is the supreme solace.
Had pale scanty hair and an earthy skin;
There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent.
The devil is a good actor, smiled Domingo.
The answer was obvious. Life had no meaning. On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's histor...
TheAlmighty can hardly be such a fool as the churches makeout. If you keep His laws I don’t think He can care apacket of pins whether you believe in Him or not.
She could not admit but that he had remarkable qualities, sometimes she thought that there was even in him a strange and unattractive greatness; it was curious then that she could not love him, but lo...
Only a woman knows what a woman can do.
Let me be frank just this once, father. I've been foolish and wicked and hateful. I've been terribly punished. I'm determined to save my daughter from all that. I want her to be fearless and frank. I...
It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
I suppose only a Frenchman can appreciate to the full the grace and grandeur of Racine and the music of his verse, but even a foreigner, once he has accustomed himself to the periwigged formality of t...
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the mu...