Mistrust all enterprises that require new clothes.
Money pads the edges of things.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
It is thus, if there is any rule, that we ought to die--neither as victim nor as fanatic, but as the seafarer who can greet with an equal eye the deep that he is entering, and the shore that he must leave.
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
There are moments when the inner life actually 'pays,' when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.
While her lips talked culture, her heart was planning to invite him to tea
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
I can only do what's easy. I can only entice and be enticed. I can't, and won't, attempt difficult relations. If I marry it will either be a man who's strong enough to boss me or whom I'm strong enough to boss. So I shan't ever marry, for there aren't such men. And Heaven help any one whom I do marry, for I shall certainly run away from him before you can say 'Jack Robinson.
Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown
Sometimes I think too much fuss is made about marriage. Century after century of carnal embracement and we're still no nearer to understanding one another.
Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.
Aziz winked at him slowly and said: “...There are many ways of being a man; mine is to express what is deepest in my heart.
We move between two darknesses.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
The armour of falsehood is subtly wrought out of darkness, and hides a man not only from others, but from his own soul.
If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run
Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
It isn't possible to love and to part.
Adventures do occur, but not punctually.
It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.
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