Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
Man can learn everything if he will but try.
Love is always being given where it is not required.
I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
Money pads the edges of things.
Outside the arch, always there seemed another arch. And beyond the remotest echo, a silence.
... there are shadows because there are hills.
Give, do not lend; after death who will thank you?
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.
My conviction gains infinitely the moment another soul will believe in it.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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