Yes,” said Mamma, “this is the worst of life, that love does not give us common sense but is a sure way of losing it. We love people, and we say that….

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit..

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and ….

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition..

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is a….

No great thing happens suddenly..

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is..

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the f….

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots..

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman..

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide..

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano..

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to….

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts..

I had a glorious father, I had no father at all..

Mr. Arnold Bennett feels he has ranked himself for ever as a dry wine by what he mixed with himself of Maupassant; nevertheless he has put on the mar….

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul..

To every man in the world there is one person of whom he knows little: whom he would never recognize if he met him walking down the street, whose mot….

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience..

It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross..

I do not myself find it agreeable to be 90, and I cannot imagine why it should seem so to other people. It is not that you have any fears about your ….