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" It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. "

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" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

" Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. "

" I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. "

" He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. "

" Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. "

" I have never given adoration to any body except myself. "

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

" I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. "

" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "

" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "

" The basis of optimism is sheer terror. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. "

" 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. "

" Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world. "

" No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. "

" I am not young enough to know everything. "

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

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

" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" 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. "

" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

" The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation. "

" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "