James, Alice Archives - World Quotations

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can’t tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Doctors

I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Education

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

Goodness

How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Vulgarity

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.