Occupation: Novelist Birth: September 15, 1890 Death: January 12, 1976
Too much mercy... often resulted in further crimes which were fatal to innocent victims who need not have been victims if justice had been put first ….
I've always noticed that if you speak the truth in a rather silly way nobody believes you..
One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one..
No, my friend, I am not drunk. I have just been to the dentist, and need not return for another six months! Is it not the most beautiful thought? --P….
If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off..
There is nothing more thrilling in this world, I think, than having a child that is yours, and yet is mysteriously a stranger..
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the ….
It's not a man's working hours that are important--it's his leisure hours. That's the mistake we all make..
... nothing is so boring as devotion..
There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want….
I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue..
There is no telling what a human character is. Until the test comes. To most of us the test comes early in life. A man is confronted quite soon with ….
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 ….
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances..
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you..
The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me..
Until one looks back on one's own past one fails to realise what an extraordinary view of the world a child has..
Who is there who has not felt a sudden startled pang at reliving an old experience or feeling an old emotion?.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody..
When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach..
There's nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation..