I hope you hair curls naturally, does it? Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
I don’t play accurately – any one can play accurately – but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.
The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people – that is all!
I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful.
With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
The final mystery is oneself.
Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.
Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.
Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.
What fire does not destroy, it hardens.
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.