18 quotes
A pair of lovers are like sunset and sunrise: there are such things every day but we very seldom see them.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
To me it seems that those who are happy in this world are better and more lovable people than those who are not.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Sensible people get the greater part of their own dying done during their own lifetime.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
How is it, I wonder, that all religious officials, from God the Father to the parish beadle, should be so arbitrary and exacting.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage—but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
One great reason why clergymen's households are generally unhappy is because the clergyman is so much at home or close about the house.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Youth is like spring, an overpraised season.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
It is far safer to know too little than too much. People will condemn the one, though they will resent being called upon to exert themselves to follow the other.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
There are two classes of people in this world, those who sin, and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either, he had better belong to the first than to the second.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Taking numbers into account, I should think more mental suffering had been undergone in the streets leading from St George's, Hanover Square, than in the condemned cells of Newgate.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Every man's work, whether it be literature or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself, and the more he tries to conceal himself the more clearly will his character appear in spite of him.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)
We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
The Way of All Flesh (1903)