The ability of the theist to misunderstand a thing is directly proportional to the obviousness of the thing.
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world – it dreams away its life in the Conca d’Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
History is a lie commonly agreed upon.
A woman’s life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man’s life progresses.
I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.
We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
Progress is the realization of utopia.
The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it.