It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
Don’t give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can’t wear in the evening.
Men become old, but they never become good.
Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
I prefer women with a past. They’re always so damned amusing to talk to.
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.
I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
A process which makes one rogue cleverer than another.
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.
Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne.
Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
Schools should be the most beautiful place in every town and village-so beautiful that the punishment for undutiful children should be barred from going to school the following day.
A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.
The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.