35 quotes found
“Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.”
“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.”
“When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.”
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles.”
“Do you know, Sandy dear, all my ambitions are for you and Rose. You have got insight, perhaps not quite spiritual, but you're a deep one, and Rose has got instinct.' 'Perhaps not quite spiritual' s...”
“I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work. ”
“[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music a...”
“It is a good thing to go to Paris for a few days if you have had a lot of trouble, and that is my advice to everyone except Parisians.”
“If I had my life to live over again, I would form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death. There is not another practice w...”
“It's only possible to betray where loyalty is due”
“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”
“It was a gusty day, and from the windows of Caroline's top-floor flat, only the sky was visible with its little hurrying clouds. It was a day when being indoors was meaningful, wasting an afternoon...”
“[Being in love] is something like poetry. Certainly you can analyze it and expound its various senses and intentions but there is always something left over mysteriously hovering between music and ...”
“It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree but smiles.”
“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education. I call it int...”
