Occupation: Fiction Writer Birth: November 10, 1878 Death: January 28, 1961
Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion..
When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all..
It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it..
There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed someth….
Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave..
Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think..
if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get..
My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course ….
The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own ….
it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused..
Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any..
It is always better to say too little than too much..
when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them..
You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings..
Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough.
There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you..
A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight..
I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure..
When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride..
happy people have got something to give to the world..