"Only connect." |
. . . the crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind. |
A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness. |
A Passage to India |
A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself. |
All men are equal - that is to say, who possess umbrellas. |
America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large. |
American women shoot the hippopotamus with eyebrows made of platinum |
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity. |
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes |
Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the place of both qualities -- something best described as a profound vivacity, a continual and sincere response to all that she encountered in her path through life. |
Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man |
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West. |
Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom. |
Death destroys a man, the idea of Death saves him. |