Author of quotes: Archibald Joseph Cronin

To be beautiful is not a crime.

The more you give people, the more they demand from you.

- How awful it is to fall in love against their will, - she said finally. - When I'm with you, I no longer belong to yourself.

Eat less. The gates of heaven narrow.

- You have good intentions, Laura, ' he said hoarsely and staggered. And I have also always had good intentions. We are both people of good intentions. - He laughed. But to do what we can not do anything.

Grace remained silent. She adhered to a simple rule: not to say anything, where silence is the best answer.

David mockingly looked at her, remembering the restless quest of her early youth, a passionate desire to achieve fame on the stage.
- And what about the great aspirations, Sally?
She laughed complacently:
- They are also a little swollen with fat, David.

- This war is being waged in order to permanently end the wars.
Is the most has always said, - said Arthur suspenison voice - and most will repeat to make people kill each other, when will start the next war.

Purity of motives - that is the only yardstick, the true expression of the soul.

Everyone thinks only about themselves and the lives of other people for him - only the accessories of its own existence, of no importance; what is important is all that concerns him. The lives of other people meant something to each only insofar as it depended on his happiness...

No artist should not care to gain the praise or at least approval of his colleagues. It is intended primarily to meet him.

Compulsory military service - a monstrous invention, one of the greatest evils of our time. Who needs it: to put on people uniforms and send them to kill each other? Once the knights in good field entered in fights, war was their sport, and anything else they simply were not good. But no one had not occurred to shackle the philosopher or poet in armor and chase him in the field.

Everything is new in aesthetic thought and its incarnation has always been a mockery. Every major shift in art was first subjected to ridicule and gave rise to fierce attacks of the ignorant.

There is something worse than poverty, Humiliation.