Novelist Quotes

A woman who is loved always has success.

Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Anyone who attempts to relate his life loses himself in the immediate. One can only speak of another.

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

You're certain to get a decision in a trial.

This is an exciting time. A new chapter in our history.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.

The Bible is not man's word about God, but God's word about man.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.

That is ever the way. Tis all jealousy to the bride and good wishes to the corpse.

Every time a child says I don't believe in fairies there is a fairy somewhere that falls down dead.

Ambition it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

We are all failures at least, all the best of us are.

It's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have.

His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants' hall.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

Every man who is high up likes to think he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and lets it go at that. It's our only joke. Every woman knows that.

What we buy, and pay for, is part of ourselves.

Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.

Kindness is always fashionable.

When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes.

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

Old age is the verdict of life.