Quotes About Perspective

I love talking about nothing, father.  It is the only thing I know anything about. lord

La humanidad se toma a sí misma demasiado en serio. Es el pecado original del mundo. Si el hombre de las cavernas hubiera sabido reír, la historia habría sido diferente.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered," said Mr. Erskine; "I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

My dear boy, I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Yesterday evening Mrs Arundel insisted on my going to the window, and looking at the glorious sky, as she called it. Of course I had to look at it. She is one of those absurdly pretty Philistines to whom one can deny nothing. And what was it? It was simply a very second-rate Turner, a Turner of a bad period, with all the painter's worst faults exaggerated and over-emphasized.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

Every experience is of value.

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Lo que tengo ante mí es mi pasado. He de conseguir mirarlo con otros ojos, hacer que el mundo lo mire con otros ojos, hacer que Dios lo mire con otros ojos. Eso no lo puedo conseguir soslayándolo, ni menospreciándolo, ni alabándolo, ni negándolo. Únicamente se puede hacer aceptándolo plenamente como una parte inevitable de la evolución de mi vida y mi carácter: inclinando la cabeza a todo lo que he sufrido.

Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity

Che cosa è un cinico? Un uomo che sa il prezzo di tutte le cose e il valore di nessuna.

It is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker-on.

Un homme peut être heureux avec n'importe quelle femme, à condition de ne pas l'aimer.

I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.

Position and wealth are not everything.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them, Mr. Erskine. I should like to write a novel certainly, a novel that would be as lovely as a Persian carpet and as unreal. But there is no literary public in England for anything except newspapers, primers, and encyclopaedias. Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.

Adevarul despre casatorie este acela ca te face sa nu mai fi egoist. Iar oamenii lipsiti de egoism sun incolori. Le lipseste individualitatea