Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There is something majestic in the bad taste of Italy.
There's never any great risk as long as you have money.
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
Only connect!...Only connect the prose and the passion.
Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.
A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.
Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.
One has two duties - to be worried and not to be worried.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
It is the vice of a vulgar mind to be thrilled by bigness.
When you come back you will not be you. And I may not be I.
England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
One's favorite book is as elusive as one's favorite pudding.
Truth is a flower in whose neighbourhood others must wither.
I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?
One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.
It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
I know by experience that the poets are right: love is eternal.
Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
Men were not gods after all, but as human and as clumsy as girls.
But the body is deeper than the soul and its secrets inscrutable.
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
The middle age of buggers is not to be contemplated without horror.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.
All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.
Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
It's miles worse for you than that; I'm in love with your gamekeeper.
One person with passion is better than forty people merely interested.
There are occasions when I would rather feel like a fly than a spider.
It is the starved imagination, not the well nourished, that is afraid.
God is not Love in the East. He is Power, although Mercy may temper it.
He had shown her all the workings of his soul, mistaking this for love.
Science, when applied to personal relationships, is always just wrong .
It is my fate and perhaps my temperament to sign agreements with fools.
Sudden conversion ... is particularly attractive to the half-baked mind.
There has been, is, and always will be every conceivable type of person.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
It is devilish difficult to criticise society & also create human beings.
I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.
The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.