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" Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. "

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" Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. "

" It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. "

" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "

" When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. "

" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. "

" Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "

" 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. "

" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

" True friends stab you in the front. "

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. "

" There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. "

" Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. "

" Alas, I am dying beyond my means. "

" Nothing is so aggravating than calmness. "

" There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. "

" Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. "

" Those whom the gods love grow young. "

" Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. "

" I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead. "

" Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. "

" The truth is rarely pure and never simple. "

" Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. "

" One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged. "

" I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. "

" Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. "

" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "

" Only the shallow know themselves. "