“The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
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“The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.”
“I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.”
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
“Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.”
“There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition”
“People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.”
“Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.”
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process”
“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.”
“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
“The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.”
“Deep experience is never peaceful”
“The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.”
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
“A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.”
“Ideas are, in truth, force.”
“Life is a predicament which precedes death.”
“There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.”
“To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.”