"The Devils of Loudun" Quotes

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

It is only when we are very happy, that we can bear to gaze merrily upon the vast and limitless expanse of water, rolling on and on with such persistent, irritating monotony, to the far horizon.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

There is only one way to look at things until someone shows us how to look at them with different eyes.