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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all.
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.
ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them.
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art.
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes.
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection.
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening.
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.
Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating.
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.