One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.
Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.
I am the prince of procrastination. It is my besetting sin. I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after
Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is inevitable. The world hates Individualism. But that is not to trouble them. They are to be calm and...
The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value whatsoever. Even if people employ actual violence, they are not to be violent in turn. That would be...
Hanging out does not make one an artist. A secondhand wardrobe does not make one an artist. Neither do a hair-trigger temper, melancholic nature, propensity for tears, hating your parents, nor even HI...
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
To define is to limit.