Posted by: Silvia Menato
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
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To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices.
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old fashioned.
Only a very kind woman is capable of doing something very dumb.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy.