Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures |
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. |
Fashion is the method by which the fantastic becomes for a moment universal. |
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. |
Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal. |
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. |
Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. |
Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find an expression for joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy. |
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. |
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners. |
For he who lives more lives than one - More deaths than one must die |
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. |
Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. |
Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once! |
From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it. |