First really like is just a little bit foolishness as well as a lot of curiosity. No actually self-respecting girl would reap the benefits of it.
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.
Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.
Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.
I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.
If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don’t want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.