In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
Live the wonderful life that is in you.
Divorces are made in heaven.
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!
But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.
The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand...
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.