Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If it's to be, it's up to me.
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
The newest books are those that never grow old.
The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent
He who goes against the fashion is himself its slave.
A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent.
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth
People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.
How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.
There are few sorrows in which a good income is of no avail.
For souls in growth, great quarrels are great emancipations.
How often my soul visits the National Gallery, and how seldom
One can be bored until boredom becomes a mystical experience.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
It is through the cracks in our brains that ecstasy creeps in.
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.
Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.
Only among people who think no evil can Evil monstrously flourish.
The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.
If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.
Married women are kept women, and theyare beginning to find it out.
Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.
All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
If you are losing your leisure, look out; you may be losing your soul.
The world is not unkind, and reprobates are worse than their reputations.
We should nourish our souls on the dew of Poesy, and manure them as well.
Thank Heaven, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.
Thank heavens, the sun has gone in and I don’t have to go out and enjoy it.
I like to walk down Bond Street, thinking of all the things I don't desire.
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Eat with the rich, but go to the play with the poor, who are capable of joy.
The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!
Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
Only those who get into scrapes with their eyes open can find the safe way out.
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they've taken away?
The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.
Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.