107 quotes
You must permit that I begin it in my own way, with what may to you at first seem dream-stuff.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.
The Certain Hour (1916)
Life is very marvelous ... and to the wonders of the earth there is no end appointed.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Good and evil keep very exact accounts... and the face of every man is their ledger.
Jurgen (1919)
While it is well enough to leave footprints on the sands of time, it is even more important to make sure they point in a commendable direction.
The touch of time does more than the club of Hercules.
The Way of Ecben (1929)
I have modeled and remodeled, and cannot get exactly to my liking. So it is necessary that I keep laboring at it, until the figure is to my thinking and my desire.
Figures of Earth (1921)
You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Love, I take it, must look toward something not quite accessible, something not quite understood.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
Whatever pretended pessimists in search of notoriety may say, most people are naturally kind, at heart.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong.
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions (1917)
I quite fixedly believe the Wardens of Earth sometimes unbar strange windows, that face on other worlds than ours.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
I have followed after the truth, across this windy planet upon which every person is nourished by one or another lie.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, — and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
The Certain Hour (1916)
Man alone of animals plays the ape to his dreams.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I judge not, but am judged: and a man whose life has gone out of him, my pigs, is not even good bacon.
Figures of Earth (1921)
I consider the saga of no lord of the Silver Stallion to be worth squabbling over.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
The little silver effigies which his postulants fashion and adore are well enough: but Kalki is a horse of another color.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
I shall never of my own free will expose the naked soul of Manuel to anybody.
Figures of Earth (1921)