113 Quotes About The-nice-and-the-good

Yet she knew too that she was deeply discontented and she sometimes suffered fierce feral moods of confused yearning during which it seemed to her that her whole life was a masquerade and that she was piously acting the part of a kindly affectionate serviceable woman who was just not herself.

And what an intense heavenly blue the sea is, not a dark blue at all, but like a cauldron of light.

It's much better that I should read the letter. Otherwise I shall be endlessly wondering what was in it.

The had met at a party. Falling in love surprised them both.

Of course Paula had revealed her trouble to no one. She preserved it in her private heart like the awful bloody arcana of a mystical religion.

Ducane knew that Willy had looked forward to this visit. He knew too that the visit was rendering Willy unspeakably miserable.

There's little enough love in the world. Why do you want to kill mine?

Do you really believe that?""That it's wicked to love destiny? Yes. What happens is usually what oughtn't to happen. Why love it?

Do anything you like . . . only don't say the word 'never'. I should die of that word.