Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
Art is a point of view, and a genius way of looking at things.
Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.
Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.
Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.
Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.
One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.
Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
And remember this, that if you've been hated, you've also been loved.
He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
It's never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected.
... since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of.
Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.
She had a certain way of looking at life which he took as a personal offense.
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
My sole wish is to frustrate as utterly as possible the post-mortem exploiter.
I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.
I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
I call people rich when they're able to meet the requirements of their imagination.
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
I recall my fleeting instants in Savannah as the taste of a cup charged to the brim.
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.
There are women who are for all your 'times of life.' They're the most wonderful sort.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.