Quotes About Expression

There is a certain pleasure in weeping

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn.

Sometimes tears carry the same weight as words.

Dicere quae puduit, scribere jussit amor

While I speak, time flies.

et ignotas animum dimittit in artes, naturamque nouat.

Ars est celaree artem.

Anche le lacrime hanno il peso della parola.

I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

the letter means nothing until the spirit gives it life

I love you all; I love you more than life itself, but you're all fucking mad.

I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.

So!' he said, at length, and it came as a complete surprise to me that fellows ever really do say 'So!'. I had always thought it was just a thing you read in books.

The Soul's Awakening expression on his face became intensified. Before my revolted eyes Augustus Fink-Nottle definitely smirked.

Pfui', I said. It is an expression I don't often use...

I don't know if you suffer in the same way, but with me the act of talking in the nature of real mashed potatoes always induces a sort of prickly sensation and a hideous feeling of shame, together with a marked starting of the pores.

It was the look which Ajax had in his eyes when he defied the lightning, the look which nervous husbands have when they announce their intention of going round the corner to bowl a few games with the boys. One could not say definitely that Lord Marshmoreton looked pop-eyed. On the other hand, one could not assert truthfully that he did not.

Emotions are ill-suited for creating systems, my father's friend said, disheartened, whereas that's what we're talking about.

I suppose half the time Shakespeare just shoved down anything that came into his head.

When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.

When it comes to letting the world in on the secrets of his heart, he has about as much shrinking reticence as a steam calliope.

I believe there are two ways of writing novels. One is making a sort of musical comedy without music and ignoring real life altogether; the other is going deep down into life and not caring a damn...

Musical comedy is the Irish stew of drama. Anything may be put into it, with the certainty that it will improve the general effect.