I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Sydney Smith.
“Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.”
“If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ”
“The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? I...”
“The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.”
“No furniture is so charming as books.”
“When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.”
“There was only the dark infinity in which nothing was. And something happened. At the distance of a star something happened, and everything began. The Word did not come into being, but it was. It d...”
“The recipe for great work is: very exacting taste, plus the ability to gratify it.”
“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. ...”
“They want to control humankind through what they call selective breeding. The Nazis started it, but now the nwo are continuing it. See, the only way to control population is to first get it back do...”
“As long as its an every man for himself kind of world, men will always be for themselves. - Mayor Bentley in 'Tilt”
“Our world ends and some people never understand how much we really loved them.”
“Who would then deny that when I am sipping tea in my tearoom I am swallowing the whole universe with it and that this very moment of my lifting the bowl to my lips is eternity itself transcending t...”
“Have tea, might write, Laura returned.”
“Pour, varlet, pour the waterThe water steaming hot!A spoonful for each man of usAnother for the pot!”