Quotes

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it.

It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.

All great ideas are dangerous.

That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

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

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

Do you really think ... that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not -- there is no weakness in that.

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact.

Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

Art never expresses anything but itself.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.