Author Nationality

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly.

Nationality : British

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.

Nationality : British

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Nationality : British

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite.

Nationality : British

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.

Nationality : British

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Nationality : British

Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant.

Nationality : British

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.

Nationality : British

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.

Nationality : British

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Nationality : British