It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it.
With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized
Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope.
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.
I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
It is what we fear that happens to us.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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