An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
From Oscar Wilde
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
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