The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.
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