Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. |
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf |
My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important |
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. |
My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. |
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's |
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's |
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's |
Nature is always behind the age |
Never frown, because you never know when someone is falling in love with your smile. |
Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that. |
Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon. |
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . . |
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. |
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime |