Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. "

Related Quotes:

" I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. "

" There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "

" It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. "

" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

" Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. "

" The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. "

" Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. "

" The truth is rarely pure and never simple. "

" Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected. "

" There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. "

" It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. "

" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "

" What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. "

" 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. "

" The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. "

" How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. "

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

" Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity. "

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

" The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. "

" There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "

" I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china. "

" There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about. "

" In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us. "

" It is always the unreadable that occurs. "

" 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. "

" Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are. "

" Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. "

" If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. "

" To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. "