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I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
Fruitcake is like semen, there's a lot of it about but no one wants to swallow it
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
There is no man who is not, at each moment, what he has been and what he will be.
Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.
The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.
Philosophy is like a normal personal organizer, but it's smaller than a matchbox.
And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.
The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.
No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself
When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.
A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.
It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
I never saw so many well-dressed, well-fed, business-looking Bohemians in my life.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
The only thing in the world worse than being Oscar Wilde is not being Oscar Wilde.
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy.
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.
Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!
My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.
It's either the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go. [These were his dying words.]