I can resist everything except temptation.
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Bosie has insisted on stopping here for sandwiches. He is quite like a narcissus -- so white and gold. I will come either Wednesday or Thursday night to your rooms. Send me a line. Bosie is so tired:...
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?
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.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A kiss may ruin a human life
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather t...
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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 was wrong. God's law is only Love.
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
Genius lasts longer than beauty
Everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling.
But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.