When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.
Common sense and nature will do a lot to make the pilgrimage of life not too difficult.
I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?
No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.
They say a woman always remembers her first lover with affection; but perhaps she does not always remember him.
It does the heart good to look at you.
Because women can do nothing except love, they've given it a ridiculous importance. They want to persuade us that it's the whole of life. It's an insignificant part.
Common-sense appears to be only another name for the thoughtlessness of the unthinking. It is made of the prejudices of childhood, the idiosyncrasies of individual character and the opinion of the newspapers.
A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.
When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.
No author can create a character out of nothing. He must have a model to give him a starting point; but then his imagination goes to work, he builds him up, adding a trait here, a trait there, which his model did not possess.
I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.
I wonder how anyone can have the face to condemn others when he reflects upon his own thoughts.
Culture is not just an ornament; it is the expression of a nation's character, and at the same time it is a powerful instrument to mould character. The end of culture is right living.
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part of the planet's history; and as there had been a beginning of life upon it, so, under the influence of other conditions, there would be an end: man, no more significant than other forms of life, had come not as the climax of creation but as a physical reaction to the environment.
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.
Tolerance is another word for indifference.
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.
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