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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
A book or poem which has no pity in it had better not be written.
We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
A grand passion is the privelege of people who have nothing to do.
What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence.
The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Two men look out a window. One sees mud, the other sees the stars.
How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.
The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age.
The best way to enjoy your job is to imagine yourself without one.
Genius learns from nature, its own nature. Talent learns from art.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce.
He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons.
I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.
For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.
With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.
The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?
Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.
I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
If people were meant to be nude, they would have been born this way.
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.