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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
Men as a rule love with their eyes, woman with their ears.
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.
What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it.
Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
The function of the artist is to invent, not to chronicle.
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.
She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.
The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.
Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
The best way to appreciate your job is to, is here to stay.
The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.
I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss.
When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.
The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear.
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.
We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.
I tried to visit Albania but I couldn't find it on the map.
The last person who ever crossed me is dead under my bed!!!
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.
Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid.
Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated.
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.