To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
