Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
Risk is the salt and sugar of life.
One life is an absurdly small allowance.
Nearly all trouble comes from mis-timing.
All our acts have sacramental possibilities.
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.
Who dares to be intellectual in the presence of death?
There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.
The art of advertising - untruthfulness combined with repetition.
It is only the unexpected that ever makes a customs officer think.
The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.
The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.
The world has become too full of many things, an over furnished room.
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
Whoever designed this frigging map was having a laugh. Just around the corner, my arse.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
Love of learning is a pleasant and universal bond since it deals with what one is and not what one has.
advertisement ... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a figleaf to cover it.
Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.
An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!
In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.
every frontier is doomed to produce an opposition beyond it. Nothing short of the universal can build the unfenced peace.
What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure.
I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.
