Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. Votes: 43
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. Votes: 25
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Votes: 21
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Votes: 20
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. Votes: 0
Hatred is blind, as well as love. Votes: 0
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Votes: 0
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Votes: 0
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. Votes: 0
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. Votes: 0
All art is quite useless. Votes: 0
There is no sin except stupidity. Votes: 0
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Votes: 0
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. Votes: 0
Those whom the gods love grow young. Votes: 0
In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. Votes: 0
Hearts Live By Being Wounded Votes: 0
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. Votes: 0
Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right. Votes: 0
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful." Votes: 0
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. Votes: 0
True friends stab you in the front. Votes: 0
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. Votes: 0
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others. Votes: 0
Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others. Votes: 0
Bad manners make a journalist. Votes: 0
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. Votes: 0
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. Votes: 0
Who, being loved, is poor? Votes: 0
Nowadays, saying what you really think can be a serious error since one risks being misunderstood. Votes: 0
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Votes: 0
The best revenge is to live well. Votes: 0
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. Votes: 0
The heart was made to be broken. Votes: 0
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! Votes: 0
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. Votes: 0
The moon in her chariot of pearl Votes: 0
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. Votes: 0
One should absorb the color of life. Votes: 0
Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation. Votes: 0
They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. Votes: 0
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. Votes: 0
Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. Votes: 0
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. Votes: 0
Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted. Votes: 0
Authority is quite degrading. Votes: 0
Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Votes: 0
Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. Votes: 0
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography. Votes: 0
They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too. Votes: 0
An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be. Votes: 0
Don't give a woman advice; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the evening. Votes: 0
A flower blossoms for its own joy. Votes: 0
Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. Votes: 0
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. Votes: 0
History is merely gossip Votes: 0
All great ideas are dangerous. Votes: 0
Punctuality is the thief of time Votes: 0
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Votes: 0
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. Votes: 0
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious. Votes: 0
Life is too short to learn German Votes: 0
Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. Votes: 0
Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing. Votes: 0
A mask tells us more than a face. Votes: 0
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. Votes: 0
The final mystery is oneself. Votes: 0
What the hell is an oboe? Votes: 0
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly. Votes: 0
Outcasts always mourn. Votes: 0
Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes. Votes: 0
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Votes: 0
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. Votes: 0
I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours. Votes: 0
Everything popular is wrong. Votes: 0
Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong. Votes: 0
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be! Votes: 0
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. Votes: 0
Every woman is a rebel. Votes: 0
Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. Votes: 0
Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys. Votes: 0
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Votes: 0
The secret of life is in art Votes: 0
I know. In fact, I am never wrong. Votes: 0
The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. Votes: 0
A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii Votes: 0
Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? Votes: 0
The Noblest form of Affection Votes: 0
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. Votes: 0
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want. Votes: 0
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth Votes: 0
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Votes: 0
A kiss may ruin a human life Votes: 0
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. Votes: 0
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way. Votes: 0
And Beauty is a form of Genius - is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. Votes: 0
Art, like Nature, has her monsters Votes: 0
Out of doors one becomes abstract and impersonal.One's individuality absolutely leaves one. Votes: 0
If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk. Votes: 0
Only the shallow know themselves. Votes: 0
The supreme vice is shallowness. Votes: 0
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings. Votes: 0
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse. Votes: 0
Sphinxes without secrets. Votes: 0
Be yourself; everyone else is taken. Votes: 0
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. Votes: 0
Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important. Votes: 0
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit. Votes: 0
To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still. Votes: 0
You are Beautiful when you are happy Votes: 0
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. Votes: 0
Writing bores me so. Votes: 0
Charity creates a multitude of sins. Votes: 0
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. Votes: 0
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes. Votes: 0
True contentment is not having everything, but in being satisfied with everything you have. Votes: 0
The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair. Votes: 0
Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions. Votes: 0
Always be a little unexpected. Votes: 0
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. Votes: 0
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm. Votes: 0
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. Votes: 0
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body. Votes: 0
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who canât get into it do that. Votes: 0
Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures. Votes: 0
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. Votes: 0
An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. Votes: 0
Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them. Votes: 0
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors. Votes: 0
Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful. Votes: 0
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. Votes: 0
More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else. Votes: 0
Genius lasts longer than beauty Votes: 0
When good Americans die, they go to Paris" "Where do bad Americans go?" "They stay in America Votes: 0
Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something. Votes: 0
A burnt child loves the fire. Votes: 0
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Votes: 0
Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old. Votes: 0
The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her. Votes: 0
Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence. Votes: 0
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. Votes: 0
Always keep love in your heart. Votes: 0
The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art. Votes: 0
And if it feels good... Feel it! Votes: 0
A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. Votes: 0
Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy. Votes: 0
Talent borrows, genius steals! Votes: 0
What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date. Votes: 0
To define is to limit. Votes: 0
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. Votes: 0
Most people are other people. Votes: 0
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. Votes: 0
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious. Votes: 0
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money. Votes: 0
Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning. Votes: 0
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize Votes: 0
I walk the world in wonder. Votes: 0
It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one. Votes: 0
The secret of life is in art. Votes: 0
Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end and you never know where it might take you. Votes: 0
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. Votes: 0
I'm too old to know everything Votes: 0
Everything that is popular is wrong. Votes: 0
The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. Votes: 0
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. Votes: 0
To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. Votes: 0
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul. Votes: 0
Wisdom comes with winters Votes: 0
Time is a waste of money. Votes: 0
Irony is wasted on the stupid Votes: 0
He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. Votes: 0
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. Votes: 0
A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist. It lacks imperfection. Votes: 0
To be premature is to be perfect Votes: 0
If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you. Votes: 0
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously Votes: 0
I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different. Votes: 0
Genius is born-not paid Votes: 0
Life is too short to be in a hurry. Votes: 0
There's no sin but stupidity. Votes: 0
The only thing worse than being misquoted is being sentenced to two years' hard labour for buggery Votes: 0
The only sin is stupidity. Votes: 0
At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Votes: 0
I was wrong. God's law is only Love. Votes: 0
I am happy in my prison of passion Votes: 0
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. Votes: 0
Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. Votes: 0
Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. Votes: 0
Only love can keep anyone alive... Votes: 0
The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid Votes: 0
Most people are boring and stupid. Votes: 0
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived. Votes: 0
Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance â And must I lose a soul's inheritance? Votes: 0
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood. Votes: 0
Ah! somehow life is bigger after all Than any painted angel could we see The God that is within us! Votes: 0
The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes. Votes: 0
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. Votes: 0
In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization. Votes: 0
As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. Votes: 0
America is one long expectoration. Votes: 0
Music is the perfect type of art. Votes: 0
It's not hard to get the ideas when they come. They just come... it's painful waiting for them. Votes: 0
Life is a great disappointment. Votes: 0
To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life. Votes: 0
Of course I have played outdoor games. I once played dominoes in an open air cafe in Paris. Votes: 0
Nature constantly imitates art. Votes: 0
Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn. Votes: 0
No gentleman ever has any money. Votes: 0
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen. Votes: 0
Nothing worth knowing can be taught. Votes: 0
Credit is a young man's capital. Votes: 0
Like strange mechanical grotesques, Making fantastic arabesques, The shadows raced across the blind. Votes: 0
I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it. Votes: 0
Divorces are made in heaven. Votes: 0
Education is an admirable thing. Votes: 0
History is only gossip. Votes: 0
To be popular I must be mediocre. Votes: 0
Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating. Votes: 0
Art should never be popular. Votes: 0
All women are rebels. Votes: 0
After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations. Votes: 0
The sky was pure opal now. Votes: 0
He hadnât a single redeeming vice. Votes: 0
Conscience makes egotists of us all. Votes: 0
Prism! Where is that baby? Votes: 0
Love is easily killed. Votes: 0
I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. Votes: 0
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl. Votes: 0
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do. Votes: 0
You and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that. Votes: 0
Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about. Votes: 0
ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you. Votes: 0
To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. Votes: 0
I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics. Votes: 0
The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality. Votes: 0
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Votes: 0
Life would be dull without them. Votes: 0
If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty Votes: 0
A mutual misunderstanding. Votes: 0
Nature is always behind the age Votes: 0
The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible. Votes: 0
I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes. Votes: 0
Fantastic shadows of birds Votes: 0
Education is very admirable but let us not forget that anything worth knowing cannot be taught. Votes: 0
I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her. Votes: 0
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. Votes: 0
When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it. Votes: 0