We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.All art is quite useless.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern one is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb.
Are ALL men bad?Oh, all of them, my dear, all of them, without any exception. And they never grow any better. Men become old, but they never become good..
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever mor...
Love is easily killed.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Lady Caroline: As far as I can make out, the young women of the present day seem to make it the sole object of their lives to be always playing with fire. Mrs. Allonby: The one advantage of playing wi...
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
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