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.
Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phr...
Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.
It is very wrong to kill any one[.]Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor...
I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Down the long and silent street,
Any place you love is the world to you.
And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.
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...
There is no such thing as romance in our day women have become too brilliant nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.