One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
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One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
I must keep Love in my heart today, else how shall I live through the day?
If a woman can't make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.
Envy is the feeling born in realizing one is a failure.
Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious.
A truly well made bottom is the only link between Art and Nature.
The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.