250 quotes found
“While the Gods are powerful, we learn little about them. It is only in their day of decadence that a strong light beats into heaven.”
“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.”
“When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. C...”
“The novel is a formidable mass, and it is so amorphous - no mountain in it to climb, no Parnassus or Helicon, not even a Pisgah. It is most distinctly one of the moister areas of literature - irrig...”
“The Waves is an extraordinary achievement ... It is trembling on the edge. A little less - and it would lose its poetry. A little more - and it would be over into the abyss, and be dull and arty. I...”
“We move between two darknesses.”
“People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design there came by no process of reason a con...”
“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
“Expansion. That is the idea the novelist must cling to. Not completion. Not rounding off, but opening out.”
“A work of art is never finished. It is merely abandoned.”
“I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.”
“The historian records, but the novelist creates.”
“Pity, if one can generalize, is at the bottom of woman. When men like us, it is for our better qualities, and however tender their liking, we dare not be unworthy of it, or they will quietly let us...”
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“Either life entails courage or it ceases to be life.”
“As for her hair, or rather hairs, they are too complicated to describe, but one system went down her back, lying in a thick pad there, while another, created for a lighter destiny, rippled around h...”
“Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?”
“My father says that there is only one perfect view the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.”
“Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face.... The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her dueshe reminds us too much of a prima...”
“There stood a young man who had the figure of a Greek athlete and the face of an English one...Just where he began to be beautiful the clothes started.”
