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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.
A virtuous abstinence from the joys of pederasty comes most easily to those who have no taste for it.
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.
The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.
The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself.
Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.
Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.
We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant.
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him.
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened.
I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.
Im Krieg machen die Starken die Schwachen zu Sklaven, im Frieden machen die Reichen die Armen zu Sklaven.
To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations.
Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.