Occupation: Novelist Birth: May 31, 1884 Death: August 22, 1963
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!.
A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is..
Taboos on the human heart are more dangerous than any risk we run by using our emotions. Sensation is the life of man; it is his actual energy. To su….
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away!.
it is the possibilities which are the most terrible things in life..
artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger..
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?.
It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true..
When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings..
Neither saints nor angels have ever increased my faith in this enigma Life; but what are called 'common men and women' have increased it..
All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it..
it is better in the long run to be cheated than to cheat. I have learned that there is no middle way..
Curses are children of hate; they belong to the wrong family! Prayers are better than curses!.
If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich..
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 ….
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….
There's nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final..
We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them..