 All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
(brainyquote.com)
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
(brainyquote.com)
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
(brainyquote.com)
Simple pleasures are always the last refuge of the complex
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.
(thinkexist.com)
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
(thinkexist.com)
I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.
(quotationspage.com)
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
(thinkexist.com)
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
(thinkexist.com)
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it
(thinkexist.com)
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
(thinkexist.com)
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
(thinkexist.com)
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
(thinkexist.com)
Experience is one thing you can`t get for nothing.
(brainyquote.com)
Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.
Genius
(thinkexist.com)
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
(thinkexist.com)
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
(thinkexist.com)
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one`s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what world calls a romance.
(thinkexist.com)
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
(thinkexist.com)
I have met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you`re twenty minutes.
(thinkexist.com)
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
(brainyquote.com)
When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.
(thinkexist.com)
I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
(thinkexist.com)
In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
(thinkexist.com)
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
(thinkexist.com)
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
(thinkexist.com)
Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground
(thinkexist.com)
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
(thinkexist.com)
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
(thinkexist.com)
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
(thinkexist.com)
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
(thinkexist.com)
No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime
(thinkexist.com)
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
(quotationspage.com)
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
(quotationspage.com)
An inordinate passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young
(thinkexist.com)
There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
(thinkexist.com)
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
(thinkexist.com)
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
(thinkexist.com)
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
(thinkexist.com)
He hadn`t a single redeeming vice.
(thinkexist.com)
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
(quotationspage.com)
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
(thinkexist.com)
A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
(thinkexist.com)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
(quotationspage.com)
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
(thinkexist.com)
I can resist anything but temptation.
(quotationspage.com)
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing
(thinkexist.com)
It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution
(thinkexist.com)
I like men who have a future and women who have a past
(thinkexist.com)
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
(thinkexist.com)
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
(thinkexist.com)
We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell
(thinkexist.com)
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
(quotationspage.com)
I don`t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
(thinkexist.com)
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
(thinkexist.com)
The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.
(thinkexist.com)
Self denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.
(thinkexist.com)
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
(thinkexist.com)
A kiss may ruin a human life.
(thinkexist.com)
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
(thinkexist.com)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
(quotationspage.com)
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
(brainyquote.com)
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Ideas
(thinkexist.com)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
(thinkexist.com)
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
(thinkexist.com)
The final mystery is oneself.
(thinkexist.com)
One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation.
(thinkexist.com)
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
(thinkexist.com)
It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
(thinkexist.com)
I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.
(thinkexist.com)
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
(thinkexist.com)
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
(thinkexist.com)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality
(thinkexist.com)
The worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
(thinkexist.com)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
(quotationspage.com)
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
(thinkexist.com)
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one`s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
(thinkexist.com)
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
(thinkexist.com)
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
(thinkexist.com)
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
(quotationspage.com)
In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
(thinkexist.com)
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
(brainyquote.com)
The heart was made to be broken
(thinkexist.com)
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
(thinkexist.com)
The world has been made by fools that men should live in it
(thinkexist.com)
People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
(thinkexist.com)
In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
(thinkexist.com)
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
(thinkexist.com)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
(thinkexist.com)
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
(thinkexist.com)
Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life
(thinkexist.com)
Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich
(thinkexist.com)
The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived
(thinkexist.com)
I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
(thinkexist.com)
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
(thinkexist.com)
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
(quotationspage.com)
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do
(thinkexist.com)
One`s real life is often the life that one does not lead
(thinkexist.com)
Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
(thinkexist.com)
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
(thinkexist.com)
Men always want to be a woman`s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We woman have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man`s last romance.
(thinkexist.com)
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde
(thinkexist.com)
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances
(thinkexist.com)
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
(thinkexist.com)
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
(thinkexist.com)
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
(thinkexist.com)
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
(quotationspage.com)
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
(quotationspage.com)
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
(thinkexist.com)
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
(quotationspage.com)
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
(thinkexist.com)
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one`s mistakes.
(quotationspage.com)
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
(thinkexist.com)
Only the shallow know themselves.
(thinkexist.com)
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
(thinkexist.com)
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
(thinkexist.com)
His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
(thinkexist.com)
I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about.
(thinkexist.com)
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
(thinkexist.com)
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man`s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
(thinkexist.com)
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
(quotationspage.com)
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
(thinkexist.com)
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
(thinkexist.com)
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
(thinkexist.com)
Everything popular is wrong.
(thinkexist.com)
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
(thinkexist.com)
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love`s tragedies.
(thinkexist.com)
Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
(quotationspage.com)
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
(thinkexist.com)
The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life`s tragedy.
(thinkexist.com)
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one`s own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else`s music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
(thinkexist.com)
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
(brainyquote.com)
Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life
(thinkexist.com)
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
(thinkexist.com)
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
(thinkexist.com)
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone`s feelings unintentionally.
(thinkexist.com)
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
(thinkexist.com)
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
(thinkexist.com)
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance
(thinkexist.com)
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever
(thinkexist.com)
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
(thinkexist.com)
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
(thinkexist.com)
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.
(thinkexist.com)
Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
(thinkexist.com)
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
(thinkexist.com)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn`t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
(thinkexist.com)
The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.
(thinkexist.com)
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one`s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
(thinkexist.com)
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
(thinkexist.com)
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.
(quotationspage.com)
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
(brainyquote.com)
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability
(thinkexist.com)
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
(thinkexist.com)
It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
(thinkexist.com)
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
(quotationspage.com)
Who, being loved, is poor?
(thinkexist.com)
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people`s.
(quotationspage.com)
I don`t like compliments, and I don`t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn`t mean
(thinkexist.com)
True friends stab you in the front.
(thinkexist.com)
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others
(thinkexist.com)
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
(thinkexist.com)
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
(thinkexist.com)
There is no sin except stupidity.
(thinkexist.com)
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
(thinkexist.com)
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation
(thinkexist.com)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
(thinkexist.com)
To love one`s self is the beginning of a life-long romance
(thinkexist.com)
I have made an important discovery... that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effect of intoxication.
(thinkexist.com)
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
(thinkexist.com)
I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
(thinkexist.com)
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people`s
(thinkexist.com)
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
(thinkexist.com)
Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
(thinkexist.com)
I am so clever that sometimes I don`t understand a single word of what I am saying.
(thinkexist.com)
Questions are never indiscreet: answers sometimes are
(thinkexist.com)
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don`t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
(thinkexist.com)
Nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude
(thinkexist.com)
To become a spectator of one`s own life is to escape the suffering of life.
(thinkexist.com)
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
(thinkexist.com)
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
(brainyquote.com)
History is merely gossip
(thinkexist.com)
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.
(thinkexist.com)
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them
(thinkexist.com)
All art is quite useless.
(brainyquote.com)
Men always want to be a woman`s first love - women like to be a mans last romance.
(thinkexist.com)
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
(thinkexist.com)
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
(thinkexist.com)
Insincerity is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities
(thinkexist.com)
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
(thinkexist.com)
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
(thinkexist.com)
Men become old, but they never become good
(thinkexist.com)
Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner
(thinkexist.com)
People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately
(thinkexist.com)
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
(thinkexist.com)
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
(thinkexist.com)
He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.
(thinkexist.com)
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
(thinkexist.com)
The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.
(thinkexist.com)
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a nice plump missionary
(thinkexist.com)
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it`s dead for you.
(thinkexist.com)
Authority is quite degrading
(thinkexist.com)
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
(thinkexist.com)
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
(brainyquote.com)
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Genius
(brainyquote.com)
True friends stab you in the front.
(brainyquote.com)
Who, being loved, is poor?
(brainyquote.com)
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
(quotationspage.com)
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
(quotationspage.com)
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
(quotationspage.com)
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
(quotationspage.com)
Biography lends to death a new terror.
(quotationspage.com)
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal.
(quotationspage.com)
Genius is born--not paid.
Genius
(quotationspage.com)
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
(quotationspage.com)
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
(quotationspage.com)
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
(quotationspage.com)
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
(quotationspage.com)
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
(quotationspage.com)
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
(quotationspage.com)
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
(quotationspage.com)
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
(quotationspage.com)
I am not young enough to know everything.
(quotationspage.com)
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
(quotationspage.com)
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
(quotationspage.com)
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
(quotationspage.com)
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one`s nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they`ll kill you.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
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