The Moon and Sixpence《Some of my favorite quotes from this novel,quite

--"It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner."

--"People talk of beauty lightlyand having no feeling for wordsthey use that one carelesslyso that it loses its force;and the thing it stands forsharing its name with a hundred trivial objectsis deprived of dignity.They call beautiful a dressa doga sermon;and when they are face to face with Beauty can not recognize it."

--"...I longed to pierce his armour of complete indifference.I know also that in the end there was truth in what he said.Unconsciously perhapswe treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of themand we hate those upon whom we have no such influence"

--"As loversthe difference between men and women is that women can love all day longbut men only at times."

--"I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundingsbut they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not."