I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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...
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence...
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.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness alwa...
Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were...
Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!
Most people are boring and stupid.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enem...
It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words.
It was always once springtime in my heart.
I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do?Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, tha...
Even things that are true can be proved.
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.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will...