Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Unhappy people are dangerous.
No great thing happens suddenly.
It seemed a good idea at the time.
He is every other inch a gentleman.
Art is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Reason's a thing we dimly see in sleep.
I write books to find out about things.
Man is a hating rather than a loving animal.
... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.
I had a glorious father, I had no father at all.
The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.
A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.
Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.
Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.
The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.
It is astonishing how the human animal survives its misfortunes.
Existence in itself, taken at its least miraculous, is a miracle.
Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.
Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
I had come to Yugoslavia to see what history meant in flesh and blood.
the law, like art, is always vainly racing to catch up with experience.
The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.
music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.
Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.
All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.
You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.
I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.
art is at least in part a way of collecting information about the universe.
There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.
Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.
If the poor ever feel poor as the rich do, we will have a most bloody revolution.
His smile bore the same relation to a real smile as false teeth do to real teeth.
It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
Sex, which ought to be an incident of life, is the obsession of the well-fed world.
When anything important has to be written ... I think your hand concentrates for you.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Christianity must be regarded not as a final revelation but as a phase of revelation.
Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.
When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!
Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...
Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.
It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.
The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
I find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.
The general tendency [is] to be censorious of the vices to which one has not been tempted.