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What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date.
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have.
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?" "Yes, darling, with a little help from others."
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.
When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you.
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.