107 quotes
Criticism, whatever may be its pretensions, never does more than to define the impression which is made upon it at a certain moment by a work wherein the writer himself noted the impression of the world which he received at a certain hour.
The Certain Hour (1916)
Cease from sonneting, my brothers; let us fashion songs from life.
The Certain Hour (1916)
He had a quiet way with the girls, and with the men a way of solemn, blinking simplicity which caused the more hasty in judgment to consider him a fool.
Figures of Earth (1921)
I take it that I must be the eternal playfellow of time. For piety and common-sense and death are rightfully time's toys; and it is with these three that I divert myself.
The Way of Ecben (1929)
The man was not merely very human; he was humanity. And I reflected that it is only by preserving faith in human dreams that we may, after all, perhaps some day make them come true.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
At what cost, now, may one attempt to write perfectly of beautiful happenings?
The Certain Hour (1916)
Nothing ... nothing in the universe, is of any importance, or is authentic to any serious sense, except the illusions of romance.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
So Florimel extinguished the candle, with a good-will that delighted Jurgen.
Jurgen (1919)
Ohé, I cry a loud lament for Kalki! The little silver effigies which his postulants fashion and adore are well enough: but Kalki is a horse of another color.
The Silver Stallion : A Comedy of Redemption (1926)
You are offensive...because this page has a sword which I chose to say is not a sword.
The Judgement of Jurgen (1926)
Coth admitted that, say what you might as to the Manuel who had really lived, the squinting rascal did as a rule know what he was talking about.
The Silver Stallion (1926)
Oh, do the Overlords of Life and Death always provide some obstacle to prevent what all of us have known in youth was possible from ever coming true?"
The Certain Hour (1916)
Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.
The Certain Hour (1916)
That was why all art, which strove to make the sensations of a moment soul-satisfying, was dimly felt to be irreligious. For art performed what religion only promised.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
If the Author will it, there may be appended to any comedy an afterpiece. Meanwhile, so far as I may judge, the life of Manuel ends here.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)
My immortality has sharp restrictions.
The Way of Ecben (1929)
The comedy is always the same.
The water of Haranton...is not like the water of other fountains, and curious dreams engender in this pool.
Whatever there is to know,
That shall we know one day.
The Cream of the Jest (1917)