Ideas are fatal to caste.
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
I am certainly an ought and not a must.
Naked I came into the world, naked I shall go out of it! And a very good thing too, for it reminds me that I am naked under my shirt, whatever its colour.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness, to think that a thousand square miles are a thousand times more wonderful than one square mile, and that a million square miles are almost the same as heaven.
Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.
Nature pulls one way and human nature another.
Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer
He built up a situation that was far enough from the truth. It never occurred to him that Helen was to blame. He forgot the intensity of their talk, the charm that had been lent him by sincerity, the magic of Oniton under darkness and of the whispering river. Helen loved the absolute. Leonard had been ruined absolutely, and had appeared to her as a man apart, isolated from the world. A real man, who cared for adventure and beauty, who desired to live decently and pay his way, who could have travelled more gloriously through life than the Juggernaut car that was crushing him.
No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
There is fascism, leading only into the blackness which it has chosen as its symbol, into smartness and yapping out of orders, and self-righteous brutality, into social as well as international war. It means change without hope. Our immediate duty - in that tinkering which is the only useful form of action in our leaky old tub - our immediate duty is to stop it.
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
Lord I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.
Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.
He was obliged however to throw over Christianity. Those who base their conduct upon what they are rather than upon what they ought to be, always must throw it over in the end . . . .
Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.
They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon.
Reformers who are obsessed with purity and cannot see that their obsession is impure.
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
In the creative state a man is taken out of himself.
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.
Passion should believe itself irresistible. It should forget civility and consideration and all the other curses of a refined nature. Above all, it should never ask for leave where there is a right of way.
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