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.
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.
I quite agree with Dr. Nordau’s assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.
You can’t possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It’s absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
To be in love is to surpass one’s self.
Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart’s-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty.
When one has never heard a man’s name in the course of one’s life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
Too much work, and no vacation, Deserves at least a small libation. So hail! my friends, and raise your glasses, Work’s the curse of the drinking classes.
Art never expresses anything but itself.
There can be nothing more frequent than an occasional drink.