“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”
Architecture“A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over... is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.”
War“I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.”
Architecture“Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.”
Love“When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?”
God“The only defensible war is a war of defense.”
War“Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.”
Great“What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.”
Men“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
Happiness“We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.”
Good“Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.”
Men“Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.”
Music“Love means to love that which is unlovable or it is no virtue at all.”
Love“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
Art“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
Politics“A woman uses her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition.”
Intelligence“The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.”
Courage“A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.”
Teacher“We make our friends we make our enemies but God makes our next door neighbour.”
God“White... is not a mere absence of colour it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.”
God“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”
Age“Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.”
Marriage