Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.
It is impossible to foretell the future with any degree of accuracy, that it is impossible to rehearse life. A fault in the scenery, a face in the audience, an interruption of the audience on to the stage, and all our carefully planned gesture mean nothing, or mean too much.
I think – I think – I think how little they think what lies so near them.
The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected.
It’s miles worse for you than that; I’m in love with your gamekeeper.
When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.
I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.
I’d far rather leave a thought behind me than a child. Other people can have children.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.
Do you remember Italy?
I only wish the poets would say this too: love is of the body; not the body, but of the the body. Ah! the misery that would be saved if we confessed that! Ah! for a little directness to liberate the soul!
Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.
You told me once that we shall be judged by our intentions, not by our accomplishments. I thought it a grand remark. But we must intend to accomplish – not sit intending on a chair.