Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Life's not all beer and skittles
clothes, after all, are a form of self-expression.
in this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.
A great many women can feel and behave like men. Very few of them can behave like gentlemen.
It is bad for the soul to know itself a coward, it is apt to take refuge in mere wordy violence.
The world hid its head in the sands of convention, so that by seeing nothing it might avoid Truth.
Do try to remember this: even the world's not so black as it is painted" -Valerie to Stephen (pg. 408)
Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.
[On homosexuality:] Our love may be faithful even unto death and beyond - yet the world will call it unclean.
the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.
I have put my pen at the service of some of the most persecuted and misunderstood people in the world. So far as I know nothing of the kind has ever been attempted before in fiction.
You're neither unnatural, nor abominable, nor mad; you're as much a part of what people call nature as anyone else; only you're unexplained as yet -- you've not got your niche in creation. ~ The Well of Loneliness, 1928
What a terrible thing could be freedom. Trees were free when they were uprooted by the wind; ships were free when they were torn from their moorings; men were free when they were cast out of their homes—free to starve, free to perish of cold and hunger.