Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly!You...
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up al...
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
I am happy in my prison of passion
Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of...
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
My great mistake the fault for which I can't forgive myself is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the lading of our argosy.Wherefore my cheeks before th...
America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. All that it shows us is our own soul, the one world of which we have any real cognisance. And the sou...
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
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...
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.
He is fairer than the morning star, and whiter than the moon. For his body I would give my soul, and for his love I would surrender heaven.