atmosphere quotes

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.

London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there’s music in the air there.