The Americans are identical to the British in all respects except, of course, language.
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
There is only good art and mediocre art.
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid.
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
For, try as we may, we cannot get behind the appearence of things to reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in the things apart from their appearences.
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
The aim of love is to love. No more, no less.
The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.
The worst thing to do with success, is to boast about it.
The trouble with the lower classes is that they lack the sense of tragedy given to them by the upper classes.
The proper school to learn art is not life but art.
You can fake intelligence, but you can’t fake wit.
Oh, how I vainly wished to the bearded man in the sky that I was Neapolitan. Why? So I could bring in a fine Neapolitan pest control to help with Queensberry’s problem before it gets out of hand.
Education is an admirable thing.
Intuition is a strange instinct that tells a woman she is right, whether she is or not.