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I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it.
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance — And must I lose a soul's inheritance?
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn.
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been.
Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us!
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life.
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be.
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.