Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.
The fatal futility of Fact.
Ideas are, in truth, force.
In art economy is always beauty.
Keep making the movements of life.
Art without life is a poor affair.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
One is oneself a fine consequence.
She is written in a foreign tongue.
I have lived too long in foreign parts
When I am wicked I am in high spirits.
Excellence does not require perfection.
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to.
All intimacies are based on differences.
Love has nothing to do with good reasons.
Writing is not primarily escape, but use.
If this was love, love had been overrated.
Her memory's your love. You want no other.
Life is a predicament which precedes death.
She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.
Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.
If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.
If you haven't had your life what have you had?
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.
Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.
To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
I ought to tell you that I'm probably your cousin.
It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
However British you may be, I am more British still.
Things are always different from what they might be.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
We must for dear life make our own counter-realities.
Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
London is on the whole the most possible form of life.
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home.
Oxford lends sweetness to labour and dignity to leisure.
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance.
Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.
