The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful t...
Even things that are true can be proved.
The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make us almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, w...
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.
The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.
All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is violently, grossly, and cruelly used, it produces a good effect by creatin...
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
LADY BRACKNELLTo speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
Man is many things, but he is not rational.
Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.
You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with i...
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