It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?? The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear, it’s rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he’s in love with you.? Didn’t you mean them?? At the moment.
Women are constantly trying to commit suicide for love, but generally they take care not to succeed.
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
It’s no good trying to keep up old friendships. It’s painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one’s soul.
If 50 million people say something foolish, it is still foolish.
To eat well in England you should have breakfast three times a day.
Unless love is passion, it’s not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.
It was a night so beautiful that your soul seemed hardly able to bear the prison of the body.
His death had been as futile as his life. He died ingloriously, of a stupid disease, failing once more, even at the end, to accomplish anything.
We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.
He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him.
It just shows that you may make a great stir in the world and yet sadly fail to impress the members of your own family.
With infinite patience she prepared to snare and bind me. She wanted to bring me down to her level; she cared nothing for me, she only wanted me to be hers. She was willing to do everything in the world for me except the one thing I wanted: to leave me alone.
Conversion may come under many shapes, and it may be brought about in many ways. With some men it needs a cataclysm, as a stone may be broken to fragments by the fury of a torrent; but with some it comes gradually, as a stone may be worn away by the ceaseless fall of a drop of water.
I’ve got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother’s dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It’s hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life.
The idealist withdrew himself, because he could not suffer the jostling of the human crowd; he had not the strength to fight and so called the battle vulgar; he was vain, and since his fellows would not take him at his own estimate, consoled himself with despising his fellows.