“What one does in one's art, that is the breath of one's being. What one does in one's life, that is a bagatelle for the outsiders to fuss about.”
Source: Women in Love
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English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930Related quotes
“There's no need to talk about it, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”
Variant: ... So I stopped talking about it. There's no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.
Source: The Reader
“You see? In the fairy tales one does as one wants, and in reality one does what one can.”
Source: Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”
“So far as consciousness goes, one does one's thinking before one knows what he is to think about.”
Source: A History of Experimental Psychology, 1929, p. 397: Cited in: Jay M. Jackson (2013) Social Psychology, Past and Present: An Integrative Orientation, p. 28
“One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.”
The Principles of War (1913)
As quoted in Al Arab Vol. 9 (1970) by the League of Arab States, p. 9
“What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.”
“What matters in politics above all, is not what one says, but what one does.”
The Proclamation of London (1949)