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 | "I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when
you are brave." | |
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Found in the topic Brave.
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| "Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental
starch." | |
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Found in the topic Faith.
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| "Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material
universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don"t
believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art"s sake." | |
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Found in the topic Art.
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| "Only connect!" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "Beethoven?s Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever
penetrated into the ear of Man." | |
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Found in the topic Most.
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| "The final test for a novel will be our affection for it, as it is
the test of our friends, and of anything else which we cannot
define." | |
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Found in the topic Book.
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| "If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my
friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has
always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with
people, being able to stand things." | |
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Found in the topic Tolerance.
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| "Unless we remember we cannot understand." | |
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Found in the topic Memory.
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| "Spoon-feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of
the spoon." | |
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Found in the topic Education.
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| "Failure or success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars.
But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or
against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement
is this wriggle." | |
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Found in the topic Fate.
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| "So, Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two
because it permits criticism." | |
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Found in the topic Crisis.
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| "There are only two rules. One is E. M. Forster"s guide to
Alexandria; the best way to know Alexandria is to wander aimlessly. The
second is from the Psalms; grin like a dog and run about through the
city." | |
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Found in the topic Sing.
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| "Railway termini ... are our gates to the glorious and the unknown.
Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we
return." | |
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Found in the topic Railroad.
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| "Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life,
though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come
through, and see those whom one lives come through." | |
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Found in the topic Happiness.
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| "Ideas are fatal to caste." | |
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Found in the topic Idea.
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| "How do I know what I think until I see what I say?" | |
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Found in the topic Expectation.
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| "Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her
nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I
tell what I think till I see what I say?" | |
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Found in the topic Logic.
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