I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.
I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becom...
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
Genius lasts longer than beauty
For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears ar...
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and,...
Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous poor...they have made private terms with the enemy,...
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.
Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
Bad artists always admire each others work.