The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are qu...
Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
The play was a great success but the audience was a disaster.
It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.
The optimist sees the donut, the pessimist sees the hole.
Ah! Happy they whose hearts can breakAnd peace of pardon win!How else may man make straight his pathAnd cleanse his soul from sin?How else but through a broken heartMay the Lord Christ enter in?
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.