Occupation: Novelist Birth: July 29, 1869 Death: May 19, 1946
Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous..
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual….
The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world..
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband..
Gossip is never fatal until it is denied..
The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody..
This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency a….
There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!.
The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is lef….
Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projecte….