All Quotes

Sometimes I wonder why God ever trusts talent in the hands of women, they usually make such an infernal mess of it. I think He must do it as a sort of ghastly joke. ”

Paris is a hard place to leave, even when it rains incessantly and one coughs continually from the dampness. ”

When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless. ”

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. ”

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter. ”

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. ”

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. ”

Where there is great love, there are always wishes. ”

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. ”

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of. ”