`Can you always tell whether a stranger is your friend?' `Yes.' `Then you are an Oriental.' |
. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. |
"Only connect." |
[The Englishman] has been taught at his public school that feeling is bad form. He must not express great joy or sorrow, or even open his mouth too wide when he talks -- his pipe might fall out if he did. |
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. |
A Passage to India |
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. |
All men are equal - that is to say, who possess umbrellas. |
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. |
American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum |
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. |
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes |
Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life. |
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man |
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. |