[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
It's not the innocent young things that need gentle handling--it's the ones that have been frightened and hurt.
... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.
Birth is beastly - and death - and digestion, if it comes to that. Sometimes when I think of what's happening inside me to a beautiful suprème de sole, with the caviare in boats, and the croûtons and the jolly little twists of potato and all the gadgets - I could cry. But there it is, don't you know.
There's ways and ways of dyin'. Some is took, and some takes French leave, and others is 'elped out of life.
Anythin' wrong leaves a kind of impression on the eye; brain trots along afterwards with the warnin'.
all conscious thought is a process in time; so that to think consciously about Time is like trying to use a foot-rule to measure its own length.
It is impossible for human nature to believe that money is not there. It seems so much more likely that the money is there and only needs bawling for.
It is the first duty of a gentleman to remember in the morning who he went to bed with the night before.
Well, it seems like a miracle to be able to look forward-to-to see all the minutes in front of one come hopping along with something marvellous in them, instead of just[Pg 295] saying, Well, that one didn't actually hurt and the next may be quite bearable if only something beastly doesn't come pouncing out--
The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
Of all devils let loose in the world there is no devil like devoted love.
She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
make no mistake about it, the detective-story is part of the literature of escape, and not of expression.
There's truth as far as you knows it; and there's truth as far as you're asked for it. But they don't represent the whole truth - not necessarily.
I think this co-operative scheme is an uncommonly good one. It's much easier to work on someone else's job than one's own - gives one that delightful feelin' of interferin' and bossin' about, combined with the glorious sensation that another fellow is takin' all one's own work off one's hands.
Britain possesses no climate, only weather.
Well-bred English people never have imagination.
Nothing is more vulgar than a careful avoidance of beginning a letter with the first person singular.
this is the weakness of most 'edifying' or 'propaganda' literature. There is no diversity...You cannot, in fact, give God His due without giving the devil his due also.
And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft scrape of pen on paper the only sounds to break the silence between quarter- and quarter-chime.
He was being about as protective as a can-opener.
It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.
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