286 quotes found
Writer · British · 1870–1916
British writer (1870–1916)
“I have never thought there was much to be said in favor of dragging on long after all one's friends were dead.”
“One ought not to be unkind to a woman merely on account of her plainness, any more than one had a right to take liberties with her merely because she was handsome.”
“Think not that I have come in quest of common flowers; but rather to bemoan the loss of one whose scent has vanished from the air.”
“Heian Japan offers us some of the earliest examples of an attempt by women living in a male-dominated society to define the self in textual terms. Indeed, it is largely because of these works that ...”
“The purpose of the Tale of Genji may be likened to the man who, loving the lotus flower, must collect and store muddy and foul water in order to plant and cultivate the flower. The impure mud of il...”
“The Tale of Genji quite clearly breaks in two with Genji's death, but there is an earlier break, as Genji goes into his middle and late forties. If the book may thus be thought of as falling into t...”
