I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
A mother’s love for her child is like nothing else in the world.
And if you cast down an idol, there’s nothing left.
To win a war is as disasterous as to lose one.
I’ve a theory that one can always get anything one wants if one will pay the price. And do you know what the price is, nine times out of ten? Compromise.
Authors were shy, unsociable creatures, atoning for their lack of social aptitude by inventing their own companions and conversations.
Bad temper is its own safety valve. He who can bark does not bite.
Evil is not something superhuman, it’s something less than human.
I’m going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He’s going to marry and stick to me.
I continued to do arithmetic with my father, passing proudly through fractions to decimals. I eventually arrived at the point where so many cows ate so much grass, and tanks filled with water in so many hours. I found it quite enthralling.
An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
Exactly! It is absurd – improbable – it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.
Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.
Three months seems to me quite a reasonable time to complete a book, if one can get right down to it.
With method and logic one can accomplish anything.
I’m sure you have a theme: the theme of your life. You can embellish it or desecrate it, but it’s your theme, and as long as you follow it, you will experience harmony and peace of mind.
Doctors can do almost anything nowadays, can’t they, unless they kill you while they’re trying to cure you.
There are questions that you don’t ask because you’re afraid of the answers to them.
What an absurdity to go and bury oneself in South America, where they are always having revolutions.
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.