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You cannot conceive, nor can I, of the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God.
You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.
Indifference and pride look very much alike, and he probably thought I was proud.
I had committed myself: without love I'd have to go through the gestures of love.
Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent's.
There are three types of golf: golf, tournament golf and Major championship golf.
Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often conceals.
A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
One sometimes weeps over one's illusions with as much bitterness as over a death.
Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?
Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.
A painter with prestige among painters is bound to be discovered sooner or later.
Freedom and responsibility aren't interconnected things. They are the same thing.
Give government the weapons to fight your enemy and it will use them against you.
They were each like a mirror for the other, reflecting the changes in themselves.
I may not be the most likable person in the world, but I try not to upset people.
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.
Our faces were no more than ten inches apart but she was lightyears away from me.
Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
Were modern cities only beautiful after darkness hid everything but their lights?
If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly, and to love forever is to live forever.
Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
Though it might have its momentary alarms, paternity is not an exciting vocation.
either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.
The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.
Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before.
It is sometimes hard to escape the belief that history exists against the artist.
I want you and I hate wanting things and I especially hate admitting I want them.
if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.
Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
I would hate to see the idea of freedom disappear, and I wonder if maybe it will.
I am living permanently in my dream, from which I make brief forays into reality.
I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
Centuries have not worm-eaten the solidity of this ancient furniture of the mind.
In my palm I can feel the echo of her pulse, standing in for the absense of mine.
My son, the Holy Church is on the right, but Jesus Christ was always on the left.
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.