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All Quotes Collection
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
62
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
48
"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death."
57
"Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby."
54
"Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation."
48
"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred."
71
"Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like."
47
"Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence."
61
"A faith is something you die for, a doctrine is something you kill for. There is all the difference in the world."
50
"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."
48
"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."
41
"Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure."
44
"Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission."
38
"To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists."
40
"There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul."
40
"The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is."
53
"Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism."
36
"Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world."
36
"Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened."
36
"Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity."
55
"Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like."
39
"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."
43
"Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man."
46
"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."
42
"A first-rate organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected."
48
"A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it."
48
"Being a husband is a whole-time job. That is why so many husbands fail. They cannot give their entire attention to it."
40
"True popularity comes from acts of kindness rather than acts of stupidity."
43
"The discipline you learn and character you build from setting and achieving a goal can be more valuable than the achievement of the goal itself."
62
"The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person."
63
"The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want."
55
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