Famous quotes containing the words james, gordon and/or bennett:
“Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so—or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin’s lot.”
—Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)