. . . an unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences. |
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. |
A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue. |
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. |
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. |
But marriage is a one long sacrifice. |
Everything about her was both vigorous and exquisite. |
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. |
He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime |
His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness he saw the dwindling figure of a man to whom nothing was ever to happen. |
How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ''American'' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? |
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast. |
I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting |
I feel that each case must be judged individually, on its own merits ... irrespective of stupid conventionalities... I mean, each woman's right to her liberty. |
I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. |