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" The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. "

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" Writing bores me so. "

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

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

" The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. "

" Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. "

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

" An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him. "

" I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

" 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. "

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

" All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital. "

" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "

" Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. "

" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes. "

" The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. "

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

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

" Those whom the gods love grow young. "

" The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. "

" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "

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

" I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. "

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