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(...) Sir Boris had fought and killed the Paynim; Sir Gawain, the Turk; Sir Miles, the Pole; Sir Andrew, the Frank; Sir Richard, the Austrian; Sir Jor...more

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No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

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Are we not acceptable, moon? Are we not lovely sitting together here, I in my satin; he in black and white?

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Never let anybody guess that you have a mind of your own. Above all be pure

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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world...more

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For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are tryi...more

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Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

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I’ll be blasted’, he said, ‘if I ever write another word, or try to write another word, to please Nick Greene or the Muse. Bad, good, or indifferent, ...more

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I prefer, where truth is important, to write fiction.

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A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand.

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Why should a real chair be better than an imaginary elephant?

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Her simplicity fathomed what clever people falsified.

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The beauty of the world...has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

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And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women d...more