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In a very...

In a very...

In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the...

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No man can...

No man can...

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things...

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A man admires...

A man admires...

A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.

Source:...

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So long as...

So long as...

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the...

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Business more than...

Business more than...

Business more than any other occupation is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an...

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Luck is being...

Luck is being...

Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our...

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I understand why...

I understand why...

I understand why the saints were rarely married women. It has primarily to do with distractions . . . Woman's normal...

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The loneliness you...

The loneliness you...

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's...

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There is no...

There is no...

There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

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Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever...

Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.

Source: In The Last...

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I think of...

I think of...

I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to...

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In the stress...

In the stress...

In the stress of modern life, how little room is left for that most comfortable vanity that whispers in our ears that...

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Newspapers always excite...

Newspapers always excite...

Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of...

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The insupportable labour...

The insupportable labour...

The insupportable labour of doing nothing.

Source: The Tatler, no. 54 (London, Aug....

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Though her mien...

Though her mien...

Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behaviour; to...

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The promised land...

The promised land...

The promised land guarantees nothing. It is only an opportunity, not a deliverance.

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There can be...

There can be...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

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Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate....

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

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It's a good...

It's a good...

It's a good thing that when God created the rainbow, He didn't consult a decorator or He would still be picking...

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Where do they...

Where do they...

Where do they get that stuff about me being a satirist? I just listen.

Source: In...

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