Quotes About Expression

But about feelings people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know nothing real beyond these words.

My answer is that if it be true that every novel contains an element of autobiography—and this can hardly be denied, since the creator can only express himself in his creation—then there are some of us to whom an open display of sentiment is repugnant.

I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.

Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.

his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

There must be a wonderful soothing power in mere words since so many men have used them for self-communion. Being

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors...

Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence — but more generally takes the form of apathy...

His picturesque and filthy loquacity flowed like a troubled stream from a poisoned source.

The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness. The

Perfino un profondo dolore può alla fine trovare sfogo nella violenza - ma più generalmente prende la forma dell'apatia.

And in this case his great practice in it was assisted by hate, which, like love, has an eloquence of its own.

Toodles looked so thunderstruck that the Assistant Commissioner smiled faintly.

To get a breath of fresh air. The expression sounded wonderfully odd, with its suggestion of sedentary desk life.

I could be eloquent were I not afraid you fellows had starved your imaginations to feed your bodies.

The point was in his being a gifted creature, and that of all his gifts the one that stood out pre-eminently, that carried with it a sense of real presence, was his ability to talk, his words—the gift of expression, the bewildering, the illuminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light, or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.

Les mots, vous le savez, sont les plus grands ennemis de la réalité.

it occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.

that a work of art is very seldom limited to one exclusive meaning and not necessarily tending to a definite conclusion. And this for the reason that the nearer it approaches art, the more it acquires a symbolic character.

He sealed the utterance with that smile of his, as though it had been a door opening into a darkness he had in his keeping.

At present he was answering questions that did not matter though they had a purpose, but he doubted whether he would ever again speak out as long as he lived.

The epigrammatic saying that speech has been given to us for the purpose of concealing our thoughts came into his mind.

There are no words for the sort of things I wanted to say. If I had opened my lips just then I would have simply howled like an animal. I was asking myself when I would wake up.