I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
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...
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferr...
For he who lives more lives than one More deaths than one must die.
After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the wo...
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could rea...
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can...
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.