Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
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.
You are Beautiful when you are happy
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
What a silly thing Love is. It is not as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are no...
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.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great po...
The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.
Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased...
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
RequiescatTread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.All her bright golden hairTarnished with rust,She that was young and fairFallen to dust.Lily-like, white a...
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
LADY BRACKNELLThirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. Lady Dumbleton is an i...