Popularity: -1
Vote:   | A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. |
Popularity: -5
Vote: | Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Ideas are, in truth, force. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that what have you had? |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The terrible fluidity of self-revelation. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character? |