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

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

" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "

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

" Biography lends to death a new terror. "

" 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. "

" Only the shallow know themselves. "

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

" 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. "

" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

" Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. "

" You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit. "

" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "

" The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is. "

" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "

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

" One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. "

" To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. "

" Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. "