It’s very inconvenient to be loved. Nearly everyone has found that out, sooner or later. The fewer people who love you the less you will have to suffer.
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?
With thought, all problems can be resolved.
I always take abroad with me one really good soft pillow – to me it makes all the difference between comfort and misery.
We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.
It’s not a man’s working hours that are important – it’s his leisure hours. That’s the mistake we all make.
I have a certain experience of the way people tell lies.
I can think of nothing more soul destroying in life than to persist in trying to do a thing you want desperately to do well, and to know that you are at the best second rate.
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.