22 quotes
To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!
Déclassée (1919)
Englishmen are like that. They love life more and value it less than any other people in the world.
Déclassée (1919)
It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.
Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)
This world is a very unsafe place. It's all shifting sands, Ned. Shifting sands and changing winds.
Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)
Like a fool I thought I was the arbiter of her destiny; and all the time Fate had happier plans for her.
Déclassée (1919)
The nostalgia—
not of memories
But of what has never been!
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that—but that's the only way one can stay married.
Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)
And I wonder if peace is enough for any man. ...
Greatness (1922)
I am the wind that wavers,
You are the certain land;
I am the shadow that passes
Over the sand.
In all my locked-up songs
No one but you belongs.
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
Forgetting is the cost
Of living cheerfully.
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
Work alone qualifies us for life, Sentoni. It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.
The Portrait of Tiero (1920)
No one can ever help loving anyone.
Greatness (1922)
My life is like water that has gone over the dam and turned no mill wheels. Here I am, not happy, but not unhappy, as my days run on to the sea, idly—but not too swiftly—for I love living.
Déclassée (1919)
Indifferent to all the fun of chance
I watched black spiders of inertia spin
The far-flung web which I was strangling in.
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
I know not where I go; I scarcely feel
The menacing fatigue about my feet,
The skies that scourge, the distances that cheat, the constant wounds that never hurt nor heal.
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
... there's a great strangeness about love. ... Yes, I'm very sure that love is the strangest thing in the world—much stranger than death—or—or just life.
Daddys Gone A-Hunting (1921)
The success haters. ... That's what I call them—the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. ... As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail. ...
Greatness (1922)
So much do I love wandering,
So much I love the sea and sky,
That it will be a piteous thing
In one small grave to lie!
The Hills Grow Smaller (1937)
The Greeks had a word for it.
Title of play (1930)