Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice. |
Never do anything yourself that others can do for you. |
Oh dear, I never realized what a terrible lot of explaining one has to do in a murder! |
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. |
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. |
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. |
Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing. |
Sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely , racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just being alive is a grand thing. |
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes. |
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. |
The human mind prefers to be spoon-fed with the thoughts of others, but deprived of such nourishment it will, reluctantly, begin to think for itself - and such thinking, remember, is original thinking and may have valuable results. |
The popular idea that a child forgets easily is not an accurate one. Many people go right through life in the grip of an idea which has been impressed on them in very tender years. |
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger |
There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away. |
There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. |