Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour. "

Related Quotes:

" A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. "

" 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. "

" Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes. "

" Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. "

" I never could get on with representative individuals but people who existed on their own account and with whom it might therefore be possible to be friends. "

" At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. "

" Most quarrels are inevitable at the time; incredible afterwards. "

" The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists. "

" 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. "

" We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "

" The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. "

" The more highly public life is organized the lower does its morality sink. "

" Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent. "

" England has always been disinclined to accept human nature. "

" I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life. "

" Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life. "

" The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. "

" People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness. "

" Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love. "

" At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes. "

" The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself. "

" Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think, creation's. "

" I am certainly an ought and not a must. "

" What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote. "

" Love is always being given where it is not required. "

" Reverence is fatal to literature. "

" Unless we remember we cannot understand. "

" But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else. "

" I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual. "

" Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice. "