Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Oh, wise young judge.
Oh, comfortable cocoa!
The Devil's out of fashion.
Prayer's a very tricky business.
Ham with mustard is a meal of glory
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
Death is too much to ask of the living.
I wanted so terribly to be good to him.
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
How can a young man like to wear a beard?
How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
If you love people, you take them on trust.
I like seeing people when they can't see me.
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
Truthfulness so often goes with ruthlessness.
People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.
Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.
So many of the loveliest things in England are melancholy.
Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
I am a restlessness inside a stillness inside a restlessness.
I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.
I know all about the facts of life, and I don't think much of them.
Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
extreme happiness invites religion almost as much as extreme misery.
The tea was a comfort - and by that time I more than needed comfort.
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
Americans do seem to say things which make the English notice England.
Only the margin left to write on now. I love you, I love you, I love you.
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious.
Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.
When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe.
What a tiny list of friends I have! All my fault. I less and less want to see people.
Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.
a loss of sensibility follows a loss of innocence, at once a penalty and a compensation.
My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher?
I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life.
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon.
Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.
...surely I could give him--a sort of contentment... That isn't enough to give. Not for the giver.
Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.