I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don’t know.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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