A. G. Gaston Quotes

To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.

when a man", continued Raoul, "adopts such romantic methods to entice a young girl's affections. ..""The man must be either a villain, or the girl a fool: is that it?

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event

I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

I'm sick and tired of having a forest and a torture chamber in my house... I want to have a nice quiet flat with ordinary doors and windows and a wife inside it, like anybody else!

Would a bird build its nest if it did not have its instinct for confidence in the world?

While there are things about which one does not boast, there are others for which to be pitied would be all too humiliating.

Erik: Are you very tired?Christine: Oh, tonight I gave you my soul, and I am dead.Erik: Your soul is a beautiful thing, child. No emperor received so fair a gift. The angels wept to-night.

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

Wolves in shells are crueler than stray ones.

I say, 'Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose, and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!

So like a forgotten fire a childhood can always flare up again within us.