I can write no stately proemAs a prelude to my lay;From a poet to a poemI would dare to say.For if of these fallen petalsOne to you seem fair,Love will waft it till it settlesOn your hair.And when win...
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
Men always want to be a woman's first love, -women want to be a man's last romance.
Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
The heart was made to be broken.
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head; and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our e...
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
The living always think that gold can make them happy
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
Never regret thy fall,O Icarus of the fearless flight