Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 31, 1884 Death: August 22, 1963
It is you men who make war! ... We, who have children, would never make it! Why should a woman be broken up in pain, to give her child life, only to ….
Things that happen, however painful they are at the time, do not matter very much for long. Only how we behave to them matters..
What are so mysterious as the eyes of a child?.
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final..
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it..
Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of y….
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!.
The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love..
... one pets what one degrades; and one has to support what one has enfeebled.
The only creative power I know is that of what might roughly be called 'love'; not of course a sentimental love: a far more impersonal and less indiv….
death ... is not a great affair! Think - it happens once only - to each of us - as birth does. What do you know about being born? that - and no more ….
... the ears of the hunted grow even keener than a hunter's..
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone..
Truth is its own defense..
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich..
Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it..
... can life be made undignified by any act of man?.
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life..
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true..
A blossom must break the sheath it has been sheltered by..
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't one? And there are people I know wh….