Natalie Clifford Barney
A scholar's heart is a dark well in which are buried many aborted feelings that rise to the surface as arguments.Collection: Learning
Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.Collection: Privilege
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something.Collection: Hero
My only books were women's looks.Collection: Book
In love there is no status quo.Collection: Status Quo
To be married is to be neither alone nor together.Collection: Together
All expression, all art, is an indiscretion we commit against ourselves. This is not an 'impoverishment' but an increase in wealth, for it is in this way that we make the short hours of our lives live on beyond themselves.Collection: Art
Avoid that romantic trap: saying more than you feel, forcing yourself to feel more than you've said!Collection: Traps
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.Collection: Doubt
We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.Collection: God
A thought falls like a ripe fruit from the tree of idleness.Collection: Fall
Fashion: the search for a new absurdity.Collection: Fashion
I judge people's charm by the ease with which I express myself in their presence.Collection: People
To think about and prepare for war is boring, boring for everyone. It's being locked in barracks.Collection: War
That parasite: the past.Collection: Past
Eternity: what a waste of time.Collection: Waste
What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.Collection: Annoying