When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because, and Vanessa would confirm this, phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.
I never wanted to weigh more heavily on a man than a bird.
It may be that there was no reason or purpose, for mankind must always be finding reasons where there are none, and comfort in a purpose that hardly exists.
How naturally do you apply your hands to each other's lappets, ruffles, and mantuas!
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic. They both desire to rule over life: the former, by knowing how to meet his principle needs by means of foresight, prudence, and regularity; the latter, by disregarding these needs and, as an "overjoyed hero," counting as real only that life which has been disguised as illusion and beauty.
Reginald closed his eyes with the elaborate weariness of one who has rather nice eyelashes and thinks it useless to conceal the fact.
His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen it through.
Liking is probably the best form of ownership, and ownership the worst form of liking.
Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.