Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
An artist must be a reactionary
All fates are ‘worse than death’.
O God, make me good, but not yet.
I'm quite deaf now; such a comfort.
To understand all is to forgive all.
No one is ever holy without suffering.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
I put the words down and push them a bit.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
We possess nothing certainly except the past
I had been there before; I knew all about it.
Self-sufficiency at home, self-assertion abroad.
You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.
There are no poetic ideas; only poetic utterances.
We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
When we argue for our limitations, we get to keep them.
Other nations use 'force' we Britons alone use 'Might'.
If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.
Other nations use 'force'; we Britons alone use 'Might'.
He did not fail in love, but he lost the joy of it [...]
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.
Quomondo sedet sola civitas. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.
His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.
"It is typical of Oxford," I said, "to start the new year in autumn."
'I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house' she said.
... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.
News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.
Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
The trouble with modern education is you never know how ignorant they are.
Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.
Not everyone grows to be old, but everyone has been younger than he is now.
What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book.
If politicians and scientists were lazier, how much happier we should all be
Words should be an intense pleasure just as leather should be to a shoemaker.
Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
I prefer all but the very worst travel books, to all but the very best novels.
One can write, think and pray exclusively of others; dreams are all egocentric.