It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. |
It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes. |
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true. |
It is sweet to dance to violins/ When Love and Life are fair:/ To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes/ Is delicate and rare:/ But it is not sweet with nimble feet/ To dance upon the air! |
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution |
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors |
It is through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; through Art and Art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence |
It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection. |
It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. |
It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produced a false impression. |
It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest. |
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime. |
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. |
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. |
It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing |